Glossary
Plain-English definitions of the technical terms behind AI writing and AI detection.
Burstiness
Variance in sentence length across a piece of writing. Human text is bursty; AI text is uniform.
Perplexity
How surprising the next word is given the previous words. AI text has lower perplexity than human text.
AI Detector
A classifier that estimates whether a piece of text was generated by an AI model.
AI Humanizer
A tool that rewrites AI-generated text to read more like writing produced by a person.