Because 14 different publishers ended up bidding on it last month, with the winner — Minotaur, a division of Macmillan — offering a reported $2.4 million. The details around I’ll Hide the Body scandal (first broken by Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider) are only a bit different. The accusations also blew up the film rights auction that UTA’s Jason Richman was reportedly getting ready to handle. One Stanford-led study found that non-native English writers — like Falade — were falsely flagged more than 60 percent of the time. As an experiment, we decided to feed this 100 percent human-crafted Rambling item into a randomly selected online AI detector.