The FTC cracks down on an AI content detector that promised 98% accuracy but was only right 53% of the time.

I’ll sell you a fair coin that’s nearly as accurate for half the price!

One big, sad problem in machine learning and AI is that many, hopefully not most, practitioners there are largely incompetent in statistics and probability. This is why they often incorrectly evaluate the performance before deployment.

60% of the time, it works every time