Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.03136: StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
Find me an option that works like GDocs keeping a running history of writing and editing, and I’ll consider it.
I have receipts for the integrity of my writing. I dont need some shitty tool to validate it.
Some moron is gonna vibe code a script that spoofs this on the surface. Yea it’ll be detectable, but not detected in most cases.
I love that docs receipt feature and agree with you. Great call.
Forgive me being well-meaningly obnoxious, but make sure to get receipts outside of the Google ecosystem too. As a professional writer/editor myself, I’ve heard horror stories about folks losing access to an account, and therefore the receipts.
I am also skeptical of these kinds of tools.
Never trust any cloud storage that you do not personally have access to cold back ups of.
This is data storage 101!
Just look for the em dash. Anytime someone says they have been using it before AI is a liar.
Can confirm — am liar
Get - boys! - we got an AIer - here!
93.2% macro-F1 for human vs. AI detection and 68.4% macro-F1 for six-way authorship attribution
This isn’t what I’d call “reliable”.
I’m also not impressed with their methodology, which is heavily based on Gemini.
To generate mirrored AI stories, we reverse-engineer writing prompts from each human story by prompting Gemini 2.5 Flash (Gemini Team, 2025a) to infer the underlying premise
That’s too many steps removed from anything you’d encounter in the wild. They’re not even testing against human-prompted output.
And then they use Gemini again to analyze all the stories. Relying on proprietary cloud models for the core of your analysis is like building on sand.
Next up: AI adapts to evade detection by last week’s researchers’ detectors.
only 7% of human work got flagged for ai it is reliable though
Dude if my code had an error rate of 7%, my boss would not say that this “good enough”.
Percentages are somewhat misleading here. That’s around 2 in 25, enough to falsely accuse a student in a fairly standard classroom for example.
I remember somebody mentioning a quote along the lines of “A 95% success rate sounds good, until you become the 1 in 20 that it kills”
In matters of life and death, the alternative choices are always important to consider…
5% chance of dying vs a 99% chance of living a horrible life of immobility and pain?
We all die eventually.
Getting your degree or being kicked out and banned from your college and still requires to pay back the loans. IS life or death.
It literally can determine the quality of life of a person for the next 30-40 years. If not forever. This is NOT something to take lightly.
That’s not good enough. Just a thought experiment: Only 7% of humans died because their work got flagged incorrectly
this is just spherical cow fallacy combined with purity culture slop
no methodology is perfect, it just needs to be practically valid, using ai != killing people for using ai
unless you are for killing people who use AI, which wouldn’t surprise me one bit about Anti-AI horde
Tell that to the student who gets expelled because they’re writing was falsely identified as AI and then takes their own life.
Tell that to the person falsely identified with facial recognition and is arrested and loses their job.
Using AI to detect AI is as bad as using AI for any important decision.
This isn’t hypothetical. It happens. People will lose their livelihood or die because of it. 7 in 100 is not accurate enough when any penalty is applied to detection.
The key is for the detector to be the screener, innocent until proven guilty, and a screener tool with 7% failure rate is not proof.
Back when I was in Uni poor grades were considered a lifelong sentence to poverty…
To be fair it still is. It’s even worse if your expelled and have to pay back the loan any ways.
… which will be fed into the next generation of LLMs in order to stop sounding quite so much like LLMs.
Already, you can tell 'em “stop using em-dashes and other AI tells” — and they will.
I wonder how does this stand to writers who have learnt English as a second language
At this point, unless you write prose, i’d certainly use AI to improve formulations. See it as proof readers.

Note to self, avoid https://grrrgraphics.com/
I can’t tell if you posted this unironically, but in any case this is just bad AI slop
I can’t even imagine what dickhead is saying there. Is he implying that the mean real people are bullying the sensitive AI babies?
Since Ben Garrison is the one human whose output most closely resembles AI, I imagine this is him having an existential crisis.
You’re saying an actual human called that thing both “pen & ink” and a “typewrite”?
… Also labeled the clearly working lamp as “power outage”
… And doesn’t understand how USB works
I don’t buy it. Even if Ben did real drawing in the past, he clearly isn’t now. Edit: Or as a reply pointed out, the signature could be fake too with Ben not involved.
You’re saying an actual human called that thing both “pen & ink” and a “typewrite”?
It’s Ben Garrison! Dude can’t get an erection unless he labels every single goddamn thing. While being barely coherent. He’s been doing this for ages!
Is this real? Or is it a fake comic making fun of Ben Garrison? It’s hard to tell. I’d expect better even from him, which is saying a lot.
I dont think this is real. Definitely AI generated, very unlikely to be his actual work.
I agree, reverse image search isn’t coming up with anything for this one, but it works on other comics from his site. Seems to be an imitation.
He’s always been a big fan of labels.
Why did I think he had died? Probably getting him mixed up with Scott Adams.
I agree with you, it’s a typical example of a Garrison cartoon. It’s so boringly obvious on a surface level that you can’t help but assume there’s some idiotic alt-right subtext.
what? bro the joke is that ai writers are not real writers, it’s not that deep.
Ironically, I expect AI would probably give a more accurate summary / explanation of the comic than you just did.
I just tried with the lowest end local model I could find. It did in fact do a better job than him…
That’s an oof
Neither are you apparently