If you have been accused unfairly
Detector scores are wrong often enough that this happens to people who wrote every word themselves. Here is what actually helps.
First, do not do this
- Do not rewrite or rerun your text through any tool. Changing it now creates exactly the pattern you are accused of, and turns a false accusation into a real one.
- Do not delete anything. Version history, drafts, notes and browser history are your defence, and clearing them destroys it.
- Do not reply at midnight. Nothing about this is improved by an emotional answer written in the first hour.
What to do
- Ask for the accusation in writing, and ask which tool produced it and what score it gave.
- Gather your process: version history, saved drafts, notes, the sources you read, and any writing recording you have.
- Ask for your work to be compared against earlier writing of yours. Style is personal, and a consistent style across time is real evidence.
- Offer to talk about the content. Someone who wrote it can discuss what they argued and why, and that conversation is worth more than any score.
- Ask calmly for the standard of proof. The burden is on the accusation, not on you.
What the evidence actually says
- Detectors do not detect AI. They measure patterns such as sentence length variation and how often certain connecting phrases appear, then guess. Clear, organised, methodical writing looks the same to them.
- False positives fall hardest on people writing in a second language, and on technical or formal prose. That is a documented bias, not bad luck.
- Independent testing through 2026 found every major detector losing accuracy, because newer models write with more of the natural variation detectors rely on. Several universities have stopped using them, and courts have found a score alone insufficient.
Where VeriText fits
VeriText can record how you write something, on your own device, and export a report of the process. That is useful evidence and it is not proof, which is why the report says so on its first page. It is one piece beside your drafts and your version history, strongest when it agrees with them. If you are being accused right now and have no recording, the steps above matter far more than anything this extension can do.