Nick Perry explains why an AI detector flagged the 1776 Declaration of Independence as 99% AI-generated. The detector looks for surface patterns like formal structure and polished phrasing, not actual understanding, so well-written essays get flagged as cheating. Schools using these tools risk punishing their best writers.
An AI detector just flagged the Declaration of Independence as 99% AI written. That document was written 250 years before AI existed. So something is clearly broken because these detectors don't read for meaning. They score patterns like organized structure and formal wording. So the cleaner your, your writing is, the more likely it gets flagged. Now schools are using these tools to catch cheaters, which means the student who writes the best essay is the one who gets accused. Boost. You could spend hours on a paper you wrote yourself and still get flagged because the tool doesn't know who wrote it. It just matches patterns. Comment the word "detector" and I'll send you the prompts and tools that keep your writing from getting flagged.
