Why AI detectors can’t solve the problem they were built for

About a year and a half ago, I began deliberately deleting em dashes from my writing. It was for exactly the reason you’re thinking—because AI chatbots tend to overuse them; their presence was becoming a tell. Even if the words were 100% human-generated, I thought anyone reading might raise an eyebrow if they saw them and wonder, Is this AI? You can’t blame the world for its suspicion. Synthetically generated articles, social posts, and emails are everywhere. An analysis by Graphite found tha...