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Methodology & benchmarks.

How AI-prose detection actually works, where it fails on fiction, and how we built Slopsleuth differently.

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Why Hemingway gets flagged as AI

Perplexity-based detectors routinely misclassify minimalist literary prose. We tested The Sun Also Rises through both Slopsleuth and a generic AI detector. The results explain why fiction needs its own audit framework.

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