Marvelous examination of how to spot 2026-era AI writing, via the Economist - AI likes long sentences with less punctuation; “and” is its most overused word - relatedly, lists of three things, which drives up use of "and" as well - polysyllabic adjectives: “significant”, “increasingly” - scientific jargon ("rate-limiting," “parameter”) - nominalizations (making nouns from verbs: eg, “expansion” from “expand”) - ofc, everyone's favorite: "it's not X, it's Y"
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Replying to @DKThomp
Essentially you're saying AI writes mostly better and more complex while average human is less complex and more simplistic..

Aug 3, 2026 · 4:24 PM UTC

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Replying to @DrBeavisAI @DKThomp
"Better" depends on what your goal is. You don't need incredibly dense, complicated text for most things, and you'll lose people.
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Wrong
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Replying to @DrBeavisAI @DKThomp
Many important thoughts can be expressed briefly, but some AI models seem to expand them into an essay regardless. Google's AI seems fairly good about not doing this, but it has consistency problems so you end up rephrasing and comparing its output anyway.
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Replying to @DrBeavisAI @DKThomp
Really giving away that you don't read or write much with this tweet
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Complex is not better
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