AI detector flags 2006 poem repeating six words 4,000 times as 100% AI-generated
JessicaHullman · x · 2026-11-16
Pangram's AI text detector produced a striking false positive: a 2006 poem consisting of the same six words ("the next night we ate whale") repeated about 4,000 times was scored as 100% AI-generated across 20,530 scanned words. The earliest archive of the poem dates back to 2013, making it the oldest known long-form false positive — a reminder of how detectors stumble on extreme repetition in human writing.
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