The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · Detective fiction

AI probability VEYL scanned the opening passage below.

Why the number is interesting

Watson narrating Holmes: character-driven, opinionated, aside-heavy. Almost zero AI signal.

What VEYL saw in the passage

At 3%, Watson's voice barely registers on VEYL's classifier — this is as clearly human as a passage gets. The signals that flatten the score: the opinionated character narration ("To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman"), the conversational rhythm with mid-sentence asides ("It was not that…"), the shifting emotional stance within a single paragraph (admiration for Holmes's mind, reservation about his coldness), and Watson's characteristic hedge ("I take it"). AI-generated prose rarely produces this mix of confident assertion and self-qualifying reservation naturally — it tends to commit fully to one register. Conan Doyle's Watson is a specific human intelligence writing about a specific human, and VEYL sees it.

The passage VEYL scanned

To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.

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