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How AI Content Detectors Actually Work (and Why They Sometimes Get It Wrong)

Community description: Every week someone asks us the same question: "How does an AI detector actually know?" Teachers ask...

Dev.to | Oct 15, 2026 | ProofAI | AI Content Detector

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Short texts, heavily edited AI text, and writing by non-native English speakers are where detectors struggle most. AI text is often uniformly smooth: every sentence has similar length, structure and perplexity. You'll often see the AI text score lower on both.

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