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Boaz Barak, Harvard professor and OpenAI alignment researcher, says an AI detector flagged his daughter's organic essay as 100% machine-generated

Phrases like "profound and diverse landscape" triggered the false positive.

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My 13 year old daughter is trying to write an article that sounds like AI. I was sure she'd fail because she never uses chat or coding agents, but apparently she absorbed enough AI-ism...

2:39 PM · May 30, 2026 · 84.6K Views
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Susan Zhang@suchenzang

children unknowingly absorbing AI-isms will make AI detection completely irrelevant sooner or later

Boaz Barak@boazbaraktcs

My 13 year old daughter is trying to write an article that sounds like AI. I was sure she'd fail because she never uses chat or coding agents, but apparently she absorbed enough AI-ism...

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Boaz Barak@boazbaraktcs

My 13 year old daughter is trying to write an article that sounds like AI. I was sure she'd fail because she never uses chat or coding agents, but apparently she absorbed enough AI-ism...

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