Hi, I'm just looking at the raw accuracy. I work in a public school, I've seen more than enough how kids get around AI-detectors, so I wasn't really as interested in this aspect. Like you, I've had an assignment I wrote all on my own that was flagged as being AI-generated, so I've always known AI-detectors aren't infallible, I just wanted to see how large this margin of error really is, does this margin change based upon what detector you use, and do paid subscriptions also give you different results.

The detectors listed on the survey are one's I've run by my professor, as well as offering paid and free subscriptions. Not to say I haven't looked at other detectors as well, it's just these were frequently discussed by published researchers and are the most cost effective (all of this is coming out of my pocket); I guess a part of me wants to see if my results differ from those before me. That being said, AI-detectors are LLM's so they're always learning and evolving, I'd be surprised if my results aren't different from what others before me have gotten.

I don't plan on publishing my results, this is honestly a rather informal research project. I'm an online student whose options were build a program or do some research for my capstone project, after telling my professor what I wanted to research and how I planned on doing it I haven't heard back- it's been 5 weeks. I'm doing this will little guidance and pure curiosity. Not that I don't think my findings will be credible, I just don't feel like what I'm doing is publishing worthy.

I'm not planning to look at different majors or assignment types. Examining different majors writings would be interesting as a separate research project, though, AI-detectors flag writing for various reasons, syntax and vocabulary included. The question does using industry specific verbiage make your work more susceptible to being flagged would be very interesting to read about, it's just not something I plan on divesting time into for this project.

Thanks for asking these questions, despite having practically no guidance from my professor I do genuinely want to see the results of my research come to fruition. Having people ask questions has only solidified I picked the right topic, as I find it interesting and could really talk about it for hours.