Once I finished, I did the obvious thing and turned back to AI – running it through several of the best-known AI detectors. If AI detectors really work, there should be one thing they are good at: writing that predates generative AI. AI Detector False Positives Keep Showing UpThe more I tested, the less this looked like a one-off. Studies that ran historically human-written documents, including newspaper opinion pieces, through leading AI detectors found many were falsely flagged as machine-written. The False Economy of AI DetectionBigger picture, what bothers me is that these detectors trade on a writer’s fear.