Forensic Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
It's clear that AI is actively changing our lives. I venture to suggest that AI will also have an impact on criminal behavior, if it hasn't already. By that, I mean that I expect to some day read a ransom note, threatening letter, or manifesto written at least in part by AI. So I believe the future of forensic linguistics must be a matter of detecting language written by AI models. AI and its writings have already appeared in civil cases. Just last summer, someone used ChatGPT to write a court filing , for one example. I am confident that I can expand my thesis — a method of determining an author's native language — to apply it to detecting AI-writing in a text sample. The big obstacle that has discouraged me from trying so far has been the lack of access to academic research catalogs since I graduated a few years ago. There are other libraries I can use, namely ResearchGate , so I'll start my search there to see if anyone has published anything about authorship analysi...