Guides on writing and editing with AI — every claim tied to a source you can check.
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AI Detectors
Two completely different technologies both get called 'AI detection.' One guesses from the finished text; the other reads a signal built in at generation. Knowing which is which explains everything else.
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Prompting for Usable Drafts
A sourced field guide to the prompt techniques with measured effects on writing — examples, structure, iterative feedback — and the popular ones, like personas, that don't.
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AI Detectors
A 2026 experiment gave 214 teachers the same paper. The only thing that changed was the AI-detection number on top — and the grade fell 12 points on a 100-point scale.
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Fact-Checking AI Output
A made-up citation now has a price you can read off a docket: $5,000 in Mata v. Avianca, up to $109,700 by 2026 — plus a quieter cost when no one catches it.
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AI Detectors
AI detectors measure how predictable your writing is — and second-language English is predictable by design. The bias isn't a bug in the tool; it's the metric working exactly as built.
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Fact-Checking AI Output
Yes, ChatGPT fabricates citations. Five peer-reviewed studies measured how often: 18% for GPT-4, 55% for GPT-3.5, and up to 88% for legal questions.
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