WHY NOT BELIEVE AI DETECTOR TOOLS WITH ALL YOUR HEART

[PotatoWrites]

As the title mentioned, here is a definitive reason why one such as YOU should not wholeheartedly believe what AI detector tools comment on your work!

This is the list of ai detector tools used for this topic:
Zerogpt
Grammarly
Quillbot




In order to fully understand how AI detector tools work, we need to address first how AI works.

AI or artificial intelligence is a LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL or LLM trained to do various works using huge amount if data as the means of training the said language.

Take this for example.
In left side there is the newly built AI while on the right side is a 5 year old kid.

If you trained both of them that the correct way of writing essay is in a particular order like "introduction must begin with letter A"

What happens is the AI and the kid will now always begin writing their essays in letter A perhaps as an example is like this.

"A particular day made my life different."

Now let's talk about AI detection tools.

AI detection tools are a program in which, the programmer, coded the said program by a series of 1 and 0 or to be precise and in simplest form, true or false which is boolean.

However, they are made with different ways in mind.

Take grammarly for example.

Grammarly check the work if it is AI or not based on their grammars. While zerogpt are made using logic on how chat gpt prompts.

Now going back to our example earlier, if you trained a kid and the AI the same way, it will detect that the kid's writing style will be flagged immediately as an AI as it's writing style are already inside the database of the ai detection tool.

So with that in mind? Do you still consider AI detection tool as the final answer for determining wether a work is AI or not?


Anyways below are the sample results using the same synopsis.




The synopsis used:

Ellysia Ray Tailors spent her whole life being the perfect daughter, the model student, the dedicated researcher—always doing what others expected, never what she wanted. At thirty-something, burned out from her quantum fusion work at CERN, she finally takes a break. One week in a quiet Japanese retreat house. One moment of curiosity about the strange door hidden beneath her bed.

One touch, and everything changes.

She wakes up on cold stone, wrapped in white fabric that feels more like a shroud than clothing, with knowledge flooding her mind that shouldn't exist. The System. Not just any system—*the* System. She's not a player in this game; she's the house, the dealer, the one who sets the rules.

This new world doesn't need another hero charging into battle. It needs something far more dangerous: someone who can see the bigger picture, who can offer the right gift to the right person at exactly the right moment. A skill here, a blessing there, a gentle nudge that changes everything.

For the first time in her life, Ellysia has real power—not over equations or energy reactions, but over destiny itself. She can craft deals that reshape lives, grant abilities that turn ordinary people into legends, and watch from the shadows as her choices ripple outward in ways she never imagined.

The world is vast, broken, and beautiful. There are monsters to fight, but she won't be the one holding the sword. There are kingdoms to save, but she won't be wearing the crown. Instead, she'll be the whisper in the dark, the unexpected opportunity, the mysterious benefactor who appears just when hope seems lost.

Some call it fate. Others call it manipulation. Ellysia? She calls it finally living on her own terms.

In a realm where power means everything and trust means nothing, she's learning that the greatest gift isn't what you can take—it's what you choose to give away.

 

[Dec]

I will post again what I posted many times before.

Spoiler: AI checkers at it finest

Spoiler: full story

In the glistening, crystalline, most utterly alabaster expanse of an otherwise unnoteworthy winter morning—wherein each snowflake pirouetted in gravity’s gentle embrace as though choreographed by the invisible hand of a wistful frost-ghost—the fox jumped.

Yes. Jumped.

But before this jump—nay, this majestic propulsion of vulpine vivacity—there was silence. Pregnant silence. Not a silence of absence, but a silence full of potential, like a taut string humming with destiny, or perhaps like soup waiting to be microwaved.

The fox, whose name might have been Rendalorian (though none had asked), paused. The wind tousled his fur with the flirtatious grace of a thousand feathery whispers made corporeal, and his amber eyes stared deeply into the unspeaking snowdrift. Beneath it, a mouse? Or the Idea of a Mouse? Or perhaps his own self-doubt, buried?

He twitched.

A twitch that echoed across the ages of instinct, passed down from ancestor to ancestor in a sacred muscle memory of hunger and hope.

And then—

Explosion! Not of flame, nor light, but of paws—four of them, all present and accounted for—launched skyward in defiance of the tyrannical ground. Snow erupted around him in a paradoxical quiet cacophony, each flake recoiling as though personally affronted by the sudden disruption of their static choreography.

He arced. Oh, how he arced. The arc of that jump rivaled the curve of fate itself, if fate were a cold, soft thing made of ice crystals and regret.

Time stopped. Probably. Or maybe it didn’t. The narrative forgot to check.

And then—contact. The landing, less a fall than a poetic punctuation, marked the end of the jump and the beginning of the next phase: standing still, now with 73% more dignity. Whether the mouse existed was irrelevant. The jump had been.

And in the vast white nowhere, the fox blinked.

The snow did not applaud, but it might as well have.

Fin.

There is no need to add anything more. Just... use your own eyes. Everyone who has read some books will be able to easily pick AI-generated slop instantly, even if the language used is not their main one.
Wonder how many more threads like this one will be created in the future.

 

[Piisfun]

Ironically, the higher percentage chance of a detecting AI, the more likely I am to believe that it was written by a human from a foreign country.

If you take a couple of chapters from one of Expentio's stories, they will probably register fairly high. They also contain no AI-generated content.

 

[Deleted member 206441]

YOU should not wholeheartedly believe what AI detector tools comment on your work!

Why would I need ai detectors, I already know i am not a.i.

 

[PotatoWrites]

Why would I need ai detectors, I already know i am not a.i.

True unfortunately not everyone think like that so there you have it

 

[Tyranomaster]

Real humans rarely use em-dashes. Thats usually the main giveaway right now. Current gpt loves to use emojis too.

Realistically, its probably because the ai checker websites haven't adapted yet to the current models (gpt 4.0/4.1, claude 4, gemini 2.5). Each model sort of has its own signature style, and since the websites are still using old prompts and old styles, they aren't picking it up.

 

[PotatoWrites]

Real humans rarely use em-dashes. Thats usually the main giveaway right now. Current gpt loves to use emojis too.

Realistically, its probably because the ai checker websites haven't adapted yet to the current models (gpt 4.0/4.1, claude 4, gemini 2.5). Each model sort of has its own signature style, and since the websites are still using old prompts and old styles, they aren't picking it up.

This is actually one of the reasons why me and my capstone research group decided to pick this up as our topic for thesis.

In addition, a lot of teachers(specially the old ones) tend to stick to their beliefs and refuse to acknowledge any work that is flagged as ai with their used ai detection tools which is why we are pushing this idea to our campus as well

 

[Tyranomaster]

On a related note (since this is a writing forum), here is a research article that makes some references to writing styles of ai. Its worth skimming it, but its a lot of information, and the main topic is how your brain works using it while writing.

 

[Macha]

So with that in mind? Do you still consider AI detection tool as the final answer for determining wether a work is AI or not?

AI detection tools are made to sell undetectable AI tools and humanizers. In matters of determining whether a work is AI or not, I trust my gut.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Real humans rarely use em-dashes. Thats usually the main giveaway right now. Current gpt loves to use emojis too.

Realistically, its probably because the ai checker websites haven't adapted yet to the current models (gpt 4.0/4.1, claude 4, gemini 2.5). Each model sort of has its own signature style, and since the websites are still using old prompts and old styles, they aren't picking it up.

I was gonna complain that I use em-dashes, but I'm not a human. I'm a vampire.

 

[Ai-chan]

Ai-chan got summoned a lot these days!

 

[PotatoWrites]

Ai-chan got summoned a lot these days!

Ayo my sincerest apologies

 

[GhoulDrago]

Another thing I've noticed that Ai -atleast chagpt tends to- like using statements rather than complete sentences.

Like this:
"He finally returned home. It was familiar. Comforting. "
Instead of
"The warmth of his home was familiar and comforting after his long journey"
I'm not a native but you get the gist of it.

 

[HisDivineShadow]

I asked gpt to write a story about the adventures of a chair, 200-300 words long. Then I checked it with an AI detection tool. The result: completely written by a human ?

 

[beast_regards]

The AI detection tools are unreliable, either failing to recognize the clearly AI generated text only because the different model did the generation, or flagging the texts written entirely by human author as false positive. Worse yet, not only it could flag your own work as AI generated, it could flag the works written by the professional authors before the advent of AI as AI generated simply because the model was fed the data.

A telltale of AI generated text is usually completely missing the meaning behind the text ...

What we call "AI" isn't really artificially intelligent and doesn't understand the meaning of the text it is generating, and it soon becomes nonsense only because the algorithm decided some words or letters were often used together... in other words, massive continuity errors so obvious the human wouldn't have done it.

If you see the wording which feels awkward, but the meaning behind the text does make sense in general, then you
a) see the text written by the human author and machine translated to other language
B) text written by the human authors but "improved by AI" (i.e. rephrasing)
C) text fully written by human which was reading far too much of machine translated text
D) outside of creative writing, it's very likely corporate speech, with human behind it, just too entrenched in the way management and HR speaks. A lot of jargon words that refer to the system they represent to add validity to their meaningless words.

For images, it's a little complicated

 

[velvetvertigo]

As a non-native English speaker I usually use Ai to help me find not just grammar errors (that I can detect and fix with deepl or grammarly), but sentences that in my head are correct, and that would be correct in my native language, and are not in English.

In the end, the text I publish is more understandable and readable for the readers, so why should I prevent myself to use a tool when the purpose of such tool is to improve the readers' experience?

Ai can't write a complex novel, remembering all facts and events and relationships between characters. Maybe one day, but not now. It's easy to understand what's written by a human author and what's not ?‍

 

[Deleted member 206441]

As a non-native English speaker I usually use Ai to help me find not just grammar errors (that I can detect and fix with deepl or grammarly), but sentences that in my head are correct, and that would be correct in my native language, and are not in English.

Are you planning to learn English/grammar in the future, so you won't need to use DeepL or Grammarly?

 

[velvetvertigo]

I've studied English at school for like 10 years and when I use online platform like Scribble hub and Wattpad, I read in english.

It's not a problem of studying, or of how many hours you spend doing something (given the improvement is always possible). In my opinion, no one is able to write a correct text without doing grammar mistakes, for 1k reasons. You could be distracted, you could be tired, you could have re-read a paragraph many times without noticing an obvious error. It happens when you write in your first language too, because we are not machine, let alone if it doesn't happen when you use a language that is not your own.

Paid authors can afford editors to do that for them, because even paid authors do mistakes.

We are not paid authors, though, we can't afford editors to write fanfics or just because we love telling stories and writing stories to people.

My personal opinion is that in 2025 it's stupid to not use any possible tool to fix what we can, just out of bias towards the AI.

 

[Corty]

Everyone is an NPC anyway, so you all are AI. I detected that a long time ago.

 

[beast_regards]

Paid authors can afford editors to do that for them, because even paid authors do mistakes.

We are not paid authors, though, we can't afford editors to write fanfics or just because we love telling stories and writing stories to people.

My personal opinion is that in 2025 it's stupid to not use any possible tool to fix what we can, just out of bias towards the AI.

Many readers expect the stories to be professionally edited.

This is unrealistic, as most if not all writers on the sites like this are amateurs without formal education or training in creative writing, are doing everything in their spare time, and at least half of them don't even have English as a first language.