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Some of my oldest essays now trigger AI suspicion despite being written long before tools like ChatGPT existed. That result feels incredibly strange. What are detectors actually reacting to?

Some detection systems seem to associate clarity and consistency with AI generation, even though that’s often just good writing practice.

My PhD advisor ran one of her own published journal articles through a detector out of curiosity. It flagged her work at over 70% ai. A tenured academic with decades of publications, failing an authenticity check on her own writing. We both just stared at the screen.