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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Quietly or Silently and their cousin “the question no one’s asking”

Aug 3, 2026 · 11:28 PM UTC

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Quietly is the biggest one for me. So much so (as a professional human writer) i wouldn't dream of using it these days. So it's affecting human writing anyway, kind of an interesting time to be alive, i think obsessing over it is quite lame.
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