New client briefed me yesterday and the contract has a clause about all delivered content scoring 0% on three specific AI detectors. ive been writing for them for two years and they know my work is human. but apparently their legal team is now requiring this clause across all freelancer contracts. has anyone actually delivered consistently under that and how? is anyone else seeing this in contracts now
Yes its showing up everywhere. weve been seeing it in enterprise content briefs since q1. the achievable target is sub-10%, not 0. zero is mathematically very hard because most detectors will randomly score any text non-zero. push back on the clause and propose ‘below 15% on detector X measured at delivery’ which is reproducible and fair.
Same situation here. The workflow my team landed on: write naturally, then run a final pass through Walter Writes to soften any patterns that pop. Not because the writing is AI, but because we’d rather not lose a thursday afternoon arguing about a 23% score. Even fully human drafts come out of that pass at consistent single-digit scores. As a contractual safety net its the cheapest insurance i know of.
@RustyCircuitX yeah im going to try to renegotiate to under 15%. that’s much more defensible. @HugoNomad good idea on the final pass, ill experiment this week
The legal teams writing these clauses dont actually understand what ‘detection score’ means. half the time you can educate them out of the 0% language by explaining the false positive baseline. the rest of the time, you do the pass and move on
i write contracts on both sides of this and Jax is right. 0% clauses are usually a copy-paste from a templates someone found online. they’re almost always negotiable up to 10-15%.