there literally isn't a way you can detect "AI generated text" from regular text. it's just text. I could pretend to write like chatGPT and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference because like. there isn't one. it's not Ontologically Marked With AI Soullessness. Trying to ferret out who is "using AI to write stuff" regardless of what kind of stuff it is, is a losing battle, and one in which people will resort to the academic equivalent of hitting the computer with a blunt instrument to fix it.
Ultimately I don’t disagree but there are patterns you can keep an eye out for, such as:
- strange use of idioms or expressions (e.g. “your question has a large blast radius”)
- overly verbose, lots of filler words and too many transitional, connective-type phrases
- overly-acquiescent, just begging to be useful to a degree that’s pathetic and terrified of coming across as rude even when it’s necessary
- circumlocution, too many abstract concepts or talking “around” something instead of addressing the topic directly
- em-dashes, unfortunately
- no stream-of-conscious or true passion. The “rant of love,” the messy run-on flow of praise that you’ll see here on tumblr, is reduced to a grammatically-correct essay
but those aren't reliable and have massive false-positives that will inevitably discriminate against ESL speakers, autistic writers, etc etc, which was the point of the post. and which is a problem you are contributing to.
