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AI detection accuracy, explained without the marketing
A single accuracy number hides a lot. What it measures, what it leaves out, and the three questions to ask any detector before you trust its score.
Maya Okafor
Oct 14, 2026
Head of research at Winston AI
Maya Okafor
Maya leads the team that builds and tests our detection models. Before that she spent eight years in computational linguistics.
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Research9 min read
How we test: inside our 2026 benchmark
Twenty thousand documents, nine model families and a strict rule about what counts as human. Exactly how we measure our detector, and where it falls short.
Maya Okafor
Sep 11, 2026
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