The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated
Recent findings suggest that detection models for artificial intelligence (AI) cannot accurately identify AI-generated text and may exhibit bias against certain minority groups. In the present study, anecdotal claims that autistic writers more often have their work flagged as AI-generated are examined empirically. A corpus of approximately 60,000 Reddit posts split into "likely-autistic" and "general-Reddit" subcorpora is used to compare the distribution of probabilities output by the OpenAI GPT-2 detection model. Differences in textual features between subcorpora are observed and compared to reported features of AI-generated text. Results showed that while less than two-percent of either...
| Authors | Summer Chambers, Matthew C. Kelley |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 16 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 16 July 2026 |
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