https://authortext.com/en/articles/ Articles on spotting AI text, why detectors get it wrong and how to make writing livelier. en Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://authortext.com/en/articles/fair-checklist-suspect-ai https://authortext.com/en/articles/fair-checklist-suspect-ai Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A fair checklist for teachers and editors who suspect AI: what a detector score can prove, what it cannot, and how to talk to the author before deciding. https://authortext.com/en/articles/students-false-accusation https://authortext.com/en/articles/students-false-accusation Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What an AI detector score means for a student, how to keep proof of your own work, and what to do if a teacher flags your essay by mistake. https://authortext.com/en/articles/burstiness-perplexity https://authortext.com/en/articles/burstiness-perplexity Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Burstiness and perplexity explained in plain words: what they mean for a reader, how they relate to our signals, and why they are weak evidence alone. https://authortext.com/en/articles/checking-freelancer-text https://authortext.com/en/articles/checking-freelancer-text Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical workflow for clients who hire writers: a clear brief, drafts, style consistency, fair use of a checker and sensible AI wording in a contract. https://authortext.com/en/articles/reading-the-numbers https://authortext.com/en/articles/reading-the-numbers Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What sentence-length variation, repetition, stock phrases and connective density mean in an AuthorText analysis, with a tiny example and honest limits. https://authortext.com/en/articles/invisible-characters https://authortext.com/en/articles/invisible-characters Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Zero-width spaces, soft hyphens, curly quotes and long dashes: where they come from in copied text, what they break, and how to clean them safely. https://authortext.com/en/articles/detection-news-2026 https://authortext.com/en/articles/detection-news-2026 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What is new in 2026: benchmarks with mixed authorship, surprisal-rhythm features, EU marking rules. What we verified and what we did not. https://authortext.com/en/articles/how-detection-works https://authortext.com/en/articles/how-detection-works Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seven ways to check a text for AI, what limits each, and why an honest result is an estimate with caveats, not a percentage of AI authorship. https://authortext.com/en/articles/why-detectors-err https://authortext.com/en/articles/why-detectors-err Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A detector scores style, not the author. Why polished human writing gets high scores and how to read a result sensibly. https://authortext.com/en/articles/when-detectors-disagree https://authortext.com/en/articles/when-detectors-disagree Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An article written by a person scored "AI" while a machine-written text looked "more human". Why that happens and what to do about authorship checks. https://authortext.com/en/articles/make-text-livelier https://authortext.com/en/articles/make-text-livelier Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six techniques for livelier writing: concrete detail, uneven rhythm, fewer stock phrases, your own voice. No promises to "beat the detector". https://authortext.com/en/articles/signs-of-ai-text https://authortext.com/en/articles/signs-of-ai-text Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four signs of AI-written text: an even rhythm, stock phrases, general words with no specifics. And why none of them is proof.