Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813 · Comedy of manners

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AI probability VEYL scanned the opening passage below.

Why the number is interesting

The most famous opening line in English literature — and VEYL registers it as pure human writing.

What VEYL saw in the passage

You might expect Austen's famously polished opening to look manufactured, but the classifier reads it at 0%. Why: the ironic voice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged" sets up a mock-universal claim that the second sentence subtly undercuts ("However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be…"). AI-generated prose almost never does this — it commits to a claim rather than immediately hedging it with a wink. The parenthetical asides, the shift from grand statement to sharp specificity ("the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters"), and the confident sardonic tone are all signals of a specific author with a specific point of view. Zero percent AI — pure human sensibility.

The passage VEYL scanned

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

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