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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Outside of X all the people i talk to, openly admint using AI to write stuff, and they dont care that much if its AI ( also a lot of them are not reading anymore, they just ask AI to summarize) my point being... should we really be waisting time caring about AI writing patterns?
Aug 3, 2026 · 3:44 PM UTC
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