Is Llama 4 Maverick and Scout AI Content Detectable?

Meta released Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout in 2025. In this brief study, we reviewed Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout to find out if their content is detectable by Originality.ai.

May 2, 2026

In April 2025, Meta released the Llama 4 herd, including Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout.

According to Meta’s announcement, at the time:

Llama 4 Maverick surpassed both GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash on benchmarks
Llama 4 Scout beat Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite as well as Mistral 3.1 on benchmarks

So, is the content generated by Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout still detectable by the industry-leading Originality.ai AI Checker?

Quick Results (TL;DR): Is Llama 4 Maverick and Scout AI Content Detectable?

Yes, Originality.ai’s AI Detector is highly accurate at detecting AI content generated by Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout.

Llama 4 Maverick:

Lite = 98.6%
Turbo = 99%+

Llama 4 Scout:

Lite = 97%
Turbo = 97.5%

Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout: The Detectability Test

This study assesses the capability of the Originality.ai Lite and Turbo models to identify text generated by Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout.

The Dataset (run for both Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout, respectively):

5,000 high-quality human-written samples spanning:

Domains/Topics: health, news, finance, technology, arts & entertainment
Content Types: blogs, reviews, expository articles, conversational text
Prompt Structures: to maximize stylistic and topical diversity

Then, Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout were used to generate completions for each human-written sample prompt, respectively.

This produced a balanced dataset to evaluate the accuracy of Originality.ai’s AI detection capabilities.

The Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout Detectability Results

After testing the Originality.ai AI detection models on this dataset, we found that both Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout are still highly detectable by the industry-leading Originality.ai AI detector.

Llama 4 Maverick AI Detection Accuracy by Originality.ai Model:

Llama 4 Model	Originality.ai AI Detection Model	Detection Accuracy
Llama 4 Maverick	Lite	98.6%
Llama 4 Maverick	Turbo	99%+

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Llama 4 Scout AI Detection Accuracy by Originality.ai Model:

Llama 4 Model	Originality.ai AI Detection Model	Detection Accuracy
Llama 4 Scout	Lite	97%
Llama 4 Scout	Turbo	97.5%

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Legacy Llama Results (Detecting AI Text from Llama 3.1)

In addition to Originality.ai’s accuracy on the Llama 4 herd (Maverick and Scout), Originality.ai was also highly accurate at detecting prior Llama models, such as Llama 3.1.

What was Llama 3.1?

Meta released Llama 3.1 in 2024, achieving state-of-the-art performance across key benchmarks and becoming the first-ever open-sourced frontier model, marking a major milestone in open-source AI development. By offering a customizable alternative to closed AI systems, Meta enabled anyone to create their own tailored AI, and with this, it was more necessary than ever to understand the accuracy of AI detectors.

The Llama 3.1 Study: A Quick Summary

The study looked at 1000 Llama 3.1-generated text results to find out whether the Originality.ai AI Detector could detect Llama 3.1.

The results?

Yes, Llama 3.1-generated text was highly detectable across the Lite and Turbo Originality.ai AI detection models.

Results Overview:

Lite (1.0.0): Recall (True Positive Rate) = 99.1%
Turbo (3.0.0): Recall (True Positive Rate) = 99.6%

Note: The legacy Llama 3.1 test was run in part on previous AI detection models. See the full Originality.ai AI detection model release history in our AI Accuracy study.

Final Thoughts

Originality.ai is still highly accurate at detecting the AI models from Meta’s Llama 4 herd!

Llama 4 Maverick is detectable by Lite with 98.6% accuracy and by Turbo with 99%+ accuracy.

Then, Llama 4 Scout is detectable by Lite and Turbo with 97%+ accuracy.

For students, teachers, writers, editors, and more, Originality.ai is still a reliable way to maintain transparency about whether content is Likely AI or human-written.

Try Originality.ai’s AI detector today!

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Jonathan Gillham

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Founder / CEO of Originality.ai I have been involved in the SEO and Content Marketing world for over a decade. My career started with a portfolio of content sites, recently I sold 2 content marketing agencies and I am the Co-Founder of MotionInvest.com, the leading place to buy and sell content websites. Through these experiences I understand what web publishers need when it comes to verifying content is original. I am not For or Against AI content, I think it has a place in everyones content strategy. However, I believe you as the publisher should be the one making the decision on when to use AI content. Our Originality checking tool has been built with serious web publishers in mind!