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AI-detection backlash escalates from self-censorship to institutional retreat

Writers stripping em dashes to dodge false positives was this week's earlier version of this story; a university provost's own op-eds getting flagged, and Curtin switching its detector off entirely, is this week's.

The backlash keeps outpacing the tools it reacts to.

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