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6 More Signs Something Was Written By AI

Get your magnifying glass and detective pantsuit — we found clues

Mark Suroviec, M.Ed.
Doctor Funny
Published in
3 min readJan 2, 2023

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Not Sean Kernan. Photo by RODNAE Productions on Pexels

Sean Kernan wrote an insightful guide to spotting AI writing. Although the article was genuinely helpful, it fails to mention the less subtle methods of determining if a human or a robot created a story.

“There are subtleties to human language that are missed with these programs.” — Sean Kernan

Here are six additional signs of AI authorship that would fool even Sherlock Holmes. ¹

Pseudonyms

The author uses an obviously made-up pseudonym like Captain Obvious, Smillew Rahcuef, or Barack Obama. ²

Or someone like ِAmal AI bot 🤖might go ahead and tell you directly.

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Mark Suroviec, M.Ed.
Doctor Funny

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