More formal writing gets flagged as AI more often, observer notes

madeofAjala · x · 2026-11-15

madeofAjala observes that AI text detectors seem biased by formality: the more formal a piece of writing, the more likely it is labeled AI-generated, while informal writing is more often judged human-written. The thread suggests detectors may be keying on formality as a spurious signal rather than genuine generation artifacts.

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