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Perplexity, Burstiness and the ESL False-Positive Problem: How Statistical AI Detectors Score Text

Most "AI detectors" are not magic classifiers that recognise a model's handwriting. Many of them reduce a document to a handful of statistics about how predictable and how uniform it is, then put a threshold on the result. That design has a well-documented failure mode: it penalises people who writ…

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  1. 2026-10-28 10:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Perplexity, Burstiness and the ESL False-Positive Problem: How Statistical AI Detectors Score Text

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