Yes, 3 out of 500 essays were flagged as 100% AI generated.
There is a paragraph in the linked article about it.
Models before 2017-2018 (first gpt/bert) didn’t produce any decent text, and before gpt2/gpt3 (2020) you wouldn’t get an essay-grade text.
So you need to go back only 4-5 years to be certain an essay didn’t use AI.