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Authors Can Defend Against AI Allegations With ‘Paper Trail’ Tools. Is It Enough?
Publisher description: As the publishing industry wrestles with paranoia over the provenance of manuscripts, writers are caught in an impossible bind.
Wired | Nov 9, 2026 | Miles Klee
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But while Bartz and many other writers were on guard against this plunder of their work, another AI threat was brewing. According to Pangram, a robust but by no means infallible AI detection tool, some 78 percent of the text was AI-generated. Not all of this gets captured in writing process tools.” The tools, meanwhile, may be more geared toward copyright concerns than confirmation of human or AI authorship.
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