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Why can't human editors identify AI?

James Folta strings together the recent messes - books yanked over AI questions, famous bylines caught out - to say editors aren't failing because they're lazy; they're underwater on time, money, and text that gets harder to tell from human work every month.

He's skeptical of "just run a detector" as policy, walks through how that becomes another vendor shakedown, and demos asking Gemini about his own life to show confident, totally wrong answers. His pitch: fix the labor and the rules, not just buy another dashboard.

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