Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1945 · Political fable

10%

AI probability VEYL scanned this novel privately from a licensed copy. See disclaimer below.

Why the number is interesting

Orwell's deliberately plain "windowpane" prose. Lower than we'd predicted — the specificity wins.

What VEYL saw

VEYL scored this at 10%. A methodological note: the source file is a combined edition containing both Animal Farm and 1984, so the 60,000-word scan covers all of Animal Farm plus the opening third of 1984 — a fair proxy for "Orwell mid-1940s political fiction." The prediction had been mid-range (25%+) because Orwell wrote in what he called "windowpane" prose: clean, direct, transparent — exactly what modern AI language models are trained to produce. But the actual score lands at 10%, closer to the human end than expected. What VEYL apparently picked up on: the specificity Orwell packs into his supposedly-plain sentences (the pop-holes, the drunken Mr. Jones stumbling into the barn, Old Major calling the meeting). Windowpane prose still shows the hand of a specific writer.

A short excerpt

Reproduced under fair use for critical commentary. VEYL scored the first ~60,000 words privately.

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.

About this excerpt. VEYL calculated this score from the first ~60,000 words of a legally acquired copy of this novel. The short passage above is reproduced under fair use (17 U.S.C. §107) for the purpose of critical commentary on the AI-detection characteristics of published prose. VEYL does not host or distribute the full text of copyrighted works.

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