Ethan Mollick: AI detector evasion tools produce bad writing
eldonredwards · x · 2026-08-19
Ethan Mollick retweeted a post about Deft, an AI writing lab designed to generate text that evades AI detectors. He critiqued that the fundamental issue with such tools is that they produce bad writing.
The original post claimed Deft achieves 86% "fully human" ratings on Pangram and advised users to add more detail to prompts or change styles to improve results—strategies that often result in stilted or low-quality prose.
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