AI Detector Flags Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Opening Judged 65% AI-Generated
JFPuget · x · 2026-09-25
Pangram, an AI text detector, judged the famous opening of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities to be 65% AI-generated. The author acknowledges the caveats—it's a canonical text, it's short, and confidence is low—but the result still stands as a striking false positive, underscoring how unreliable AI text detection remains even on classic human writing.
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