Style Imitation Breaks AI Text Detectors
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-19
Epoch AI tested three mainstream AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, Originality.ai) on texts designed to "imitate an author's writing style." Results show that this type of style imitation significantly weakens detection efficacy: up to **18%** of AI-generated paragraphs went undetected; in scientific writing scenarios, the false negative rate reached as high as **48%**. The article points out that this is precisely the domain where these detectors are most likely to be deployed in real-world applications.
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