Spotting AI Writing: How Reliable Are the Detectors?
When an X account used Pangram to accuse Canadian-Haitian novelist Thelyson Orelien of writing his Goncourt-listed debut with AI, newsrooms ran the book through a dozen AI detectors and got every possible answer. This article sets out what each test found, how the tools work, what independent benchmarks from Chicago, Brussels and the Authors Guild show, the arithmetic of false positives, and how to use AI detectors without wronging anyone.
