How AI writes
Bookmarks on what distinguishes AI writing and how to identify it while you still can.
- “Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing”2023–present
- “Do LLMs write like humans? Variation in grammatical and rhetorical styles”, Alex Reinhart et al.2024: GPT-4o, Llama 3
- “hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of ‘creative writing’ LLMs”, nostalgebraist2025: DeepSeek R1, GPT-5 as the “unreleased OpenAI model”. Borrows the term “eyeball kick” from the “Turkey City Lexicon” created by the eponymous writing workshop.
- “Your Words (Are Not Your Own)”, notadampaul2025
- “How to Identify AI-Written Web Fiction”, Makin2025: ChatGPT
- “Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?”, Sam Kriss2025: ChatGPT
- “Tropes - AI Writing Pattern Directory”, Ossama Chaib2026
- “‘…as it turns out…’”, Hollis Robbins2026
- “StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction”, Jenna Russell et al.2026
- “‘AI mode collapse’ directory”
- “LLM writing styles”, Alex Reinhart
- “Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity”, Jiayi Zhang et al.2025