A Palo Alto High School sophomore wrote about 'The Crucible' — Miller's anatomy of a community that destroys people on unreliable testimony — and an AI detector flagged the essay as synthetic. The against Palo Alto Unified is not the first complaint about false positives, but it is the first in Silicon Valley's backyard, filed against a district that positions itself as technology-forward, and grounded in the argument that the accusation process itself violated the student's rights. The subject matter of the essay is…