Human-Written College Essay Flagged as AI by Every Detector, Student Caught in False-Positive Trap
sharksrcxxl · reddit · 2026-11-10
A first-year college student reports that a fully human-written essay — worth a large chunk of their grade — is flagged as AI-generated by every detector they've tried, despite not even using Grammarly. They were nearly disciplined in high school over a similar false positive on another human-written essay. The dilemma: writing with college-level vocabulary and grammar triggers AI flags, while writing simplistically earns poor grades — another illustration of AI detectors' well-documented false-positive problem with formal academic prose.
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