What John Warner thinks about LLMs

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American writer and book critic; writes the Biblioracle books column for the Chicago Tribune and contributes to Inside Higher Ed. Author of Why They Can't Write (2018) and More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (2025). Writes a weekly newsletter on reading and writing.

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1. 9 Aug 2026

   Our readingAI text detection through pattern recognition is prone to errors because LLM text may defy patterns or human text may mirror AI patterns.

   Their wordsThese detectors work through pattern recognition and given that LLM text is extruded as the byproduct of ingesting a massive corpus of human text, it's not a stretch to believe that some of this text under certain prompting conditions may defy the patterns. At the same time, human-created text may mirror that which the detector decides is AI.

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