Human text flagged 100% AI: why people treat stochastic detectors as oracles
tokenbender · x · 2026-09-24
Quoting a French user whose unpublished 2020 personal writing was flagged "100% AI" by a detector boasting a 1-in-24,400 false positive rate, tokenbender argues the AI experience is new to the world: most people were never educated on false positives/negatives and treat a stochastic system deterministically. Worse, many now use detectors to play "aha, gotcha" — and this fallibility cuts across educational backgrounds.
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