The People Falsely Accused of Using AI
AI detection has a protected-class problem: it systematically flags neurodivergent writers and non-native English speakers whose formal prose style LLMs absorbed during training. The structural overlap is unsolvable; these writers aren't imitating AI, AI imitated them. Hachette canceling a novel over AI suspicion marks the escalation from social media accusations to institutional gatekeeping, with journal rejections, employment consequences, and platform bans accumulating behind it. Every enterprise deploying detection as a quality gate is running a discrimination filter; the question is whether legal liability arrives before they figure that out. The durable replacement isn't better detection; it's provenance infrastructure: cryptographic signing, edit history, authorship trails. One writer already has readers watch her writing sessions on video chat as proof of humanity; that improvised surveillance is a product opportunity waiting to be formalized.