I think I might have been a bit heavy handed in my comment as I was rebutting the idea that only tech people can tell. I suspect it helps to have been exposed to a lot of earlier model writing, which was even more sloppy and had more of the kinds of tells we still see today.

And I’ll concede on both ends that there are probably times I suspect content is AI generated when it isn’t, and times I suspect it isn’t generated, but it was.

AI tells seem inevitable. You have millions of people communicating with one effective “personality” that has tendencies to write in certain ways. If its content is published verbatim, then it will be easier to tell whether some content is AI generated just based on its similarity (sharing certain linguistic features) to other content being posted.

It’ll never be black and white though.