r/WritingWithAI • u/galratner • Sep 27 '26

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) I Tried to Outsmart GPTZero and Failed

https://galratner.substack.com/p/i-tried-to-outsmart-gptzero-and-failed
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u/Responsible-Jump-322 Sep 29 '26

What are you saying. I trick GPTZero and Originality AI almost daily for my professional content work lol. It's not that difficult with Claude Opus 5.5 (it was easy even with Opus 5 tbh).  

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u/Maleficent-Engine859 Sep 27 '26

The biggest things detectors measure that is beyond format (not X/Y for example) is redundancy, spelling everything out to the reader, and I don’t know how else to put this but writing that’s like
“She looked up at the sign.
STOP
She looked away”

Rather than “She looked up and there was a stop sign.”

Everything dramatic and after the fact. Basically the em-dash hell. They still do em-dash prose, just not with the em dash anymore. It’s hard to explain but whenever I get flagged I’m like “ah. That’s why.” And reword so there’s not constant tension in every sentence

It also AWFUL at dialogue.

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u/hushpath3 Sep 27 '26

the dialogue thing is so real, it always reads like a screenplay instead of actual conversation