The ‘AI Tell’ Is a Lie. You’re Hunting a Ghost That Learns Faster Than You.
Every time you publicly share a phrase that ‘proves’ something was written by AI, you’re training the next model to avoid it. The quest for a reliable AI tell is a snake eating its own tail — the moment a pattern is identified, it ceases to be useful. What we call ‘detection’ is increasingly just confirmation bias, and the gap between human and machine writing isn’t just blurring. It’s dissolving.