Plagiarism detectors are inherently hard to create because they're trying to detect an amorphous concept right from the start: Originality. Instead, more empha

Plagiarism detectors are inherently hard to create because they're trying to detect an amorphous concept right from the start: Originality. Instead, more emphasis should be placed on proper citations & individual short Q&A (< 5 questions) about the writing in question: What they've researched, unexpected hurdles, research methodologies & tools, main references used, etc. Perfect recall of what's been written is not the aim, but rather that the author is able to understand what has been supposedly written by their own efforts, along with the citations used in their works. In fact, as of writing this comment, it could be fun to see what an LLM would produce as questions to such a paper in question, and have the author answer those questions on the spot. This can be used as a teaching lesson on the limits of what an LLM can accomplish, as well as proof that the author can at the very least withstand surface-level examinations from an automated system. Those with (stage fright / social anxiety / vocal disabilities) could be given extra time to come up with answers to said questions, in an attempt to balance out any advantages that could be given to confident authors via this method.