{"slug": "ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-author-s-style", "title": "AI text detectors struggle when language models mimic an author's style", "summary": "Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai) and found that up to 18% of AI-generated passages went undetected when language models mimicked an author's style. For scientific writing, the miss rate climbed as high as 48%, raising concerns about the reliability of these detectors in real-world applications.", "body_md": "Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai) using style-imitated texts. Up to 18 percent of AI-generated passages went undetected. For scientific writing, the miss rate climbed as high as 48 percent, the very genre where these detectors likely see the most real-world use.\n\nThe article [AI text detectors struggle when language models mimic an author's style](https://the-decoder.com/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-authors-style/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-author-s-style", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-authors-style/", "published_at": "2026-07-19 08:35:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-19 08:53:51.523738+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Epoch AI", "Pangram", "GPTZero", "Originality.ai"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-author-s-style", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-author-s-style.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-author-s-style.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-text-detectors-struggle-when-language-models-mimic-an-author-s-style.jsonld"}}