Hi, I was wondering if I could get some help since I'm kind of freaking out.
I've been doing some work writing content for a EU company that hosts a tourism website for the past few months. They were supposed to pay me for around 40 pages written over a period of 3 months + a bonus for turning them in ahead of schedule. Before I was on the project, the pages were absolute garbage, and very robotic, think of stuff like “This hotel in Sicily has great rooms, equipped with flat-screen TVs and a bathroom, as well as a swimming pool.”. Part of why I was put on was to make the pages more engaging and easy to read.
Come today, they say they're not paying me for ANY of the pages, because some paid software they got claimed my pages were over 90% written by AI.
I use Perplexity to find information about the hotels, it's much quicker to find out if the hotel has a kids' club or a spa that way, but I haven't used ChatGPT to write these pages. Either way, our contract says nothing about AI or anything, just that if the pages are up to standards, they're good to go. I've sunk incredible amounts of time to make the pages are accurate, well-researched, and well-written.
I used OpenAI's official detection tool + some other third-party tool and they all say that the text on those pages is unlikely to have been written by AI. The thing is, they don't care, they're saying they only care what their software says.
What are my options here? I'm just looking to get paid.