AI Detectors Falsely Accusing Human Writers: The 'Cleanliness Penalty' Problem

• Human writers, especially those with precise, formal styles, are being falsely accused of using AI.
• Qualities like clarity, precision, and structural coherence, once valued, now mark writers as suspect.
• Non-native English speakers, neurodivergent individuals, and genre fiction writers are particularly vulnerable due to their deliberate writing styles.
• AI detectors show bias against non-native writers, often flagging their formally learned English as AI-generated.
• The 'AI accent' partly reflects the Queen's English from colonial education, penalizing those with this linguistic inheritance.