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AI Detection Tools Are Astrology for Academics (And I Can Prove It)

Lorenzo Colombani4 min read

This is AI-generated. Or is it? Picture this: You’re a student. You stayed up until 3 AM writing an essay about the French Revolution. You bled for this paper. You even read primary sources. Your professor runs it through an AI detector. “87% probability of…

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Behind the argument

What, exactly, is the score supposed to establish?

This polemical essay challenges the authority given to AI-writing detector scores. It approaches the question through philosophy of science, diagnosis and the messy boundaries of authorship.

Popper, a historical diagnostic analogy and the collaborative making of the Sistine Chapel become lenses for questioning what a detector claims to measure.

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Lorenzo Colombani
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Article
Published
16 January 2026
Form
Critical opinion essay
Themes
AI detection, scientific legitimacy and authorship
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Reading notes

What, exactly, is the score supposed to establish?

Falsifiability and diagnosis

The essay asks whether a claim can be disproved and whether consistent classification is the same as identifying something valid. These are the author’s critical tests of the detector’s authority.

Assistance and authorship

Spell-checking, editing, inspiration and AI assistance complicate a simple human-versus-machine distinction. The argument asks where an asserted boundary of authorship would come from.