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Do Typos Fool AI Detectors?
Suprising (sic) results from my experiment
Should you leave typos in your writing to mark it as human, so you don’t get caught up in the false positives of AI detectors?
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately as a human writer. So I decided to run an experiment to see whether it’s a good idea. The results were surprising.
AI chatbots rarely make errors in their spelling and grammar. They’re trained on enough perfectly written text, as well as grammatical rules and style guides, that they tend to follow them slavishly.
That got me thinking about my own writing. Like all humans, I make mistakes and typos. My readers often (helpfully) reach out to tell me when I’ve misspelled a word.
Before, I would rapidly change these things. But now, I sometimes let them stand.
Why? Because in a world of perfect AI writing, I’ve always felt that including a few typos and natural human mistakes makes it clear — to both readers and the algorithms scanning my writing and deciding…
