Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818 · Gothic

AI probability VEYL scanned the opening passage below.

Why the number is interesting

Shelley wrote this at 18. Verbose, epistolary, formal — and still reads as unmistakably human to VEYL.

What VEYL saw in the passage

VEYL registers this at 0% — the lowest possible verdict. The passage is a personal letter written in Regency-era formal English, addressing a specific reader ("my dear sister"). Several signals flatten the AI score: the direct rhetorical question ("Do you understand this feeling?"), the specific sensory language rooted in a real place ("the streets of Petersburgh," "a cold northern breeze"), and the emotional stance that shifts across sentences — from businesslike arrival report to romantic anticipation. AI-generated prose tends toward a flatter, more uniform emotional register. This passage has too much personality and too much rhetorical variety to trip the classifier at all.

The passage VEYL scanned

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.

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