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title: "Can an AI detector be wrong?"
description: "Yes, often. The same passage can score differently across tools like GPTZero, Turnitin, and Originality.ai, or even on the same tool at different times. Detectors measure style, not authorship, so..."
url: https://removeaitells.com/faq-items/can-an-ai-detector-be-wrong-2/
date: 2026-09-20
modified: 2026-09-20
author: "Remove AI Tells"
type: faq
lang: en
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# Can an AI detector be wrong?

Yes, often. The same passage can score differently across tools like GPTZero, Turnitin, and Originality.ai, or even on the same tool at different times. Detectors measure style, not authorship, so clean human writing can fail while edited AI text can pass. Being wrong in both directions is a known limitation, not a rare glitch.