I always have a tinge of...perhaps 'sadness' when reading such articles because they are a lot like those large fishing nets that drag along the bottom of the ocean catching and destroying in quantities unneeded. From this list:

- Quietly/Delve/Tapestry/Landscape: they're all lovely words. I love(d) using them.

- "Serves as": I use this all the time too.

- "The result? Devastating". Perhaps it is a bit stilted, but "Outcome? Predictable." could be a nice turn of phrase.

- "It's worth noting": All academics everywhere use this in papers. See also: "Notably", "Essentially", "In general" and other such fillers that we reach for.

- "Think of it as": This is such a useful phrase to explain something. Analogy is how we learn after all.

- The fucking em dashes. I love them, and screw everyone who suggests one should stop using them. One big reason for using linux is the compose key, so the em dash is never far away.

- Same with the unicode decoration. Nah, screw you. I use these symbols all the time: °, ×, →, ⇒ etc. in my own notes. Again, compose key ftw.

Etc. (the list is endless)

I know what people will say, that everything is contextual, one has to study case-by-case etc. But I can't help feeling that someone is pointing a finger at me and accusing me before-the-fact. Just, AI has polluted the joy of writing.

I've seen Douglas Adams use almost exactly this in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. A professor (IIRC) is talking to a former student. Quoting from memory

"Did you ever actually finish any papers?"

"No. But the reasons why not were always absolutely fascinating."

So, yeah, for me personally it's not an AI tell. I've seen it in the wild before AI.

It is. And the reason for that is* surprising: the base knowledge corpus is clickbait internet articles.

*not at all

"That's not a result, that's a broken harness, and it's worth publishing because I expect it to be common."

That's Claude. But I agree and am also glad the author, uh, clauded this up. :)

[dead]