Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
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abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 15:35:12 JST abadidea
- GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 18:39:06 JST abadidea
Please stop sending me replies like "TIL I'm an LLM, because I do one of these seventeen things!" I WROTE TWO SENTENCES AND ONE OF THEM WAS ABOUT THIS
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Steve (lilstevie@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 21:26:12 JST Steve
@fishidwardrobe @0xabad1dea definitely more than 2. Also native speakers of British English derivatives used across the commonwealth
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Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 21:26:12 JST Rich Felker
@lilstevie @fishidwardrobe @0xabad1dea If you learn those rules it's as a super simplified model suitable for elementary school exercises, and for the sake of being able to meaningfully break them. Not because writing is supposed to look like that.
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Fish Id Wardrobe (fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 21:26:14 JST Fish Id Wardrobe
@0xabad1dea anyone who got good essay marks at school probably learned to do at least two of the Seventeen Things.
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