AI: Who Checks the Checkers?

Are those "tells" as telling as we think?

I do use an agent for editing and tightening up my writing. Then found out AI checkers are flagging content that is...(checks notes).... "clear and well-structured". Ok then.

Jane: "AI checkers say this is mostly AI-written, even though I wrote it; it uses my style and voice and even my preferred words like 'surface' and 'siloed'. Why does it think I didn't write it?"

Claude: "Short answer: those detectors are guessing based on patterns, not actually knowing who wrote it—and your writing happens to share some of those patterns.
A few things are working against you here:
Your writing is clear and well-structured
AI detectors tend to flag text that is:
logically organized
evenly paced
grammatically clean
low in typos or false starts
That’s…also what experienced professionals write like. Especially someone used to publishing."

I am reminded of the day I was accidentally copied in on an email in which work submitted by one of the most straight-arrow people in our business was accused of submitting "AI generated" content for publication. It was material adapted from a course they'd been teaching for years.