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The Importance of AI-Generated Content Detection in the Future: Societal, Ethical, and Policy Implications

Author(s) Bharath Kandati
Country United States
Abstract Generative artificial intelligence has advanced to a point where machine-generated content increasingly approximates human-created text, images, audio, and video. This paper argues that the absence of reliable mechanisms for identifying AI-generated content constitutes a systemic risk to societal trust, academic integrity, creative economies, and legal accountability. As generative systems improve, impersonation of authoritative figures and large-scale dissemination of synthetic misinformation become more scalable, credible, and difficult to mitigate.
This work critically examines prevailing AI content detection strategies, including classifier-based detection and watermarking mechanisms, and demonstrates their structural insufficiencies. Detection models trained on synthetic data are inherently reactive and struggle to generalize as generative systems converge toward human-level expressiveness. Watermarking, while valuable, remains inconsistently adopted and vulnerable to circumvention in the absence of enforceable regulatory standards.
The paper advances a coordinated framework integrating policy enforcement, technical safeguards, and sustained interdisciplinary research into independent content authentication mechanisms. Without proactive intervention, the distinction between authentic human expression and synthetic media risks becoming increasingly untenable, with far-reaching implications for information integrity and social trust.
Keywords AI-generated content detection, misinformation, academic integrity, AI governance, ethical AI, digital trust, content authenticity.
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Published In Volume 17, Issue 1, January-June 2026
Published On 2026-01-15
Cite This The Importance of AI-Generated Content Detection in the Future: Societal, Ethical, and Policy Implications - Bharath Kandati - IJAIDR Volume 17, Issue 1, January-June 2026. DOI 10.71097/IJAIDR.v17.i1.1701
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v17.i1.1701
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbphzm
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