Wikipedia may have built the best AI writing detection guide
www.makeuseof.com/wikipedia-best-ai-writing-detection-guide/
- Wikipedia built a handy AI detection field guide
No app needed — just pattern recognition - AI loves to over-explain importance
Some words and sentences do too much work - Formatting quirks are clues that pop up
Lists, em dashes, and boldfaces are tells - The vocabulary is surprisingly specific
These words are basically AI fingerprints - Automated detectors aren’t reliable
Train your eye, and then audit your own drafts - Learning to spot AI writing has consequences
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5 writing habits that make you sound like ChatGPT (even when you’re not)
www.makeuseof.com/writing-habits-that-make-you-sound-like-chatgpt/
- Some words have become AI tells
Researchers are already tracking them by model era - Everything gets listed in threes
Triplets feel intentional until you notice they never stop - «Not just X, but Y» adds length, not meaning
Both halves usually say the same thing at different volumes - «Is» and «are» quietly disappear
«Serves as» and «features» replaced them — and someone noticed - Factual sentences get interpreted before the reader can
- The trailing -ing clause is doing analytical work