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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Nice job, Pangram :)
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Somehow it almost feels more ai this was. The "here's the thing" sticks out so much too.

Aug 3, 2026 · 4:22 PM UTC

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Same with the lists-of-three-without-and ("fidgeted, twisted a paperclip, tapped the table", "faces, tics, sweat") and the semicolon parallelism in "streets empty; living rooms filled".
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