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I don't think there's any definitive way to check, but for me one of the biggest tells that a long piece of writing was LLM generated is that it will hardly say

• jmalicki 7mo ago
  It's not just x it's y is also something people do! That is possibly one of my personal writing weaknesses that lead my own writing to get flagged as AI. I can admit "it's not just x, it's y" is mediocre writing - but it's also something mediocre writers do - it's how AI learned to do it!
  • bonoboTP 7mo ago
    But it's also often a shoehorned artificial contrast that doesn't really make sense. The Y is often not such a different thing from the X that would make it worthy an actual "not just X but Y" claim. Or the Y is a vague subjective term, or some kind of fancy-word-dropping. It's strong styling but little content, similar to politician CYA talk. I don't think it's necessarily a tech limitation, more of an effect of deliberate post-training to be middle-of-the-road nonoffensive and nonopinionated.
  • zahlman 7mo ago
    > I can admit "it's not just x, it's y" is mediocre writing. Eh, there are times when it's entirely justifiable and even good. The problem has more to do with making it a cliche. (Also, sometimes the X-Y pair is just uncanny in one way or another.)
    • cindyllm 7mo ago
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