Most AI detectors are broken they punish students for writing too correctly

Most AI detectors don’t really “understand” writing the way people think they do. They mostly look for patterns that feel too predictable. That’s why students keep getting flagged even when they actually wrote the essay themselves. A lot of detectors rely on things like perplexity and burstiness. Basically: AI writing tends to be very smooth and statistically predictable humans write unevenly Short sentence. Then a longer messy one. Then something repetitive or awkward. AI usually keeps a much even rhythm the whole way through.