There was also the matter of his French background. Rignol calls out “GPTZero’s known bias against non-native English speakers” like himself, and he argues that detectors can mistake the formal, structured prose of such writers for AI-generated text.

But it’s not just tools like GPTZero that enrage Rignol. He believes that Yale itself is against him and that the whole “sham” disciplinary process was designed to censor his “protected conservative political speech” after he advocated in courses for “smaller government, pro-business policies, and skepticism of DEI.”