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A $5 AI book draft that fools writing detectors

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 22, 2026
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Andrew Wheeler’s previous book took a year to write. His new one, LLMs for Mortals, took two months and cost about $5 in API fees, he writes on his blog. About half of the final text is original prose from Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.1, lightly copy-edited over 20 to 30 hours per chapter. When he ran the finished book through Pangram, an AI…

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