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Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text

TickrWire Editorial Desk·Jun 25, 2026, 11:21 AM·1 min read AI-assisted, human-reviewed

Reported by The Decoder: Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text. Analysis and context written by TickrWire.

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A test by the Authors Guild found AI detectors vary widely in accuracy, with some correctly identifying human writing while others misclassify it as AI-generated.

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Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text
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The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged human-written articles as AI-generated. But the Guild also warns of a paradox: professionally written texts look statistically similar to AI output because language models were trained on exactly that kind of writing.

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