Economist notes AI copy-editing alone yields 3-5% Pangram detection scores
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-11
Economist Afinetheorem pushes back on zero-tolerance AI detection thresholds: his articles merely copy-edited with AI at roughly newspaper-copy-editor level consistently score 3-5% on Pangram, consistent with the fraction of words actually edited. He asks whether such scores should count as too much.
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