This is a real problem. Even human-written poetry can get flagged if it's simple and clean. We're working on improving accuracy for our detector (AI Button) and open-sourcing our dataset so researchers can tackle false positives. What detector did you use? Would be great to test it against our dataset.
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Used a free AI detector on a poem and it flagged my own work
I ran a poem I wrote in 2018 through a popular online checker, and it came back as 92% likely AI. The only thing I can think of is that I used very clean, simple language. Has anyone else had a human piece wrongly flagged, and what did you do about it?
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miles9482mo ago
Those checkers are basically random number generators. Your own work getting flagged proves they're useless.
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the_eva1mo ago
Oh man, that's so frustrating! I had the exact same thing happen with a short story I wrote a few years back. It was a pretty simple piece, just a quiet scene between two people talking in a kitchen, and the detector said 87% AI. I was so mad. It really makes you question yourself for a second before you realize the tool is just broken. Your poem probably just flows too well for a machine to understand that a human actually wrote it. I ended up just ignoring the result and never used that checker again.
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matthew1222mo ago
Saw a tech writer mention this exact thing last week. He said detectors often trip on short, clear sentences because a lot of AI training data is just clean web writing. Maybe your poem was too well edited and lost the "human mess" those tools look for.
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