Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up...
by jjani on Thursday August 28, 2025 @12:58AM
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> Whenever there are commonly agreed upon and known tell-tale signs of AI writing
It's been two years now since such commonly agreed upon signs appeared yet by and large they're still just as present to this day.
This will be a cat and mouse game. Content factories will want models that don't create suspicious output, and the reading public will develop new heuristics to detect it. But it will be a shifting landscape. Currently, informal writing is rare in AI generation because most people ask models to improve their formulations, with more sophisticated vocabulary etc. Often non-native speakers, who then don't exactly notice the over-pompousness, just that it looks to them like good writing.
Usually there are also deeper cues, closer to the content's tone. AI writing often lacks the sharp edge, when you unapologetically put a thought there on the table. The models are more weasely, conflict-avoidant and hold a kind of averaged, blurred millennial Reddit-brained value system.