Human Pre-AI Writing Flagged as AI: Content Detectors Face Trust Crisis
armano · x · 2026-08-13
A creator reports that their blog posts and podcast summaries written years before the generative AI era are being falsely flagged by AI detectors. They speculate their high-quality content was used for model training, causing the AI to adopt their proper grammar and use of em dashes. This highlights the absurd flaw in current AI detection tools: writing too well can now get you misidentified as a machine.
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