People here are arguing about whether it’s ok to have AI-generated content on StackOverflow or not. But it seems to me that’s not the issue. The real issue is that people suck at identifying AI content, and so do AI detectors. So moderation based on that identification is obviously going to be unfair and inaccurate. Moderators are removing perfectly acceptable human-written answers based on their spurious intuition that it’s AI generated, and they are striking because they want to go on doing so.
It doesn’t matter how confident moderators are that they can identity AI content when the correlation between their confidence and reality is so low.
Any one tool is bad at detecting AI but combining both human intuition and multiple automatic tools can get a very accurate result. Moderators already only make suspensions when multiple systems agree.
Not to mention the best AI might be hard to distinguish but most AI content is quite obvious (when reading carefully) because how bad it is. It can trick a casual reader but not a experienced moderator who knows about the subject matter.
It doesn’t matter how confident moderators are that they can identity AI content when the correlation between their confidence and reality is so low.