# AI’s writing style

- <!-- 2023-12-04 -->["Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing) (2023--present)
- <!-- 2025-03-25 -->["hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of 'creative writing' LLMs"](https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist/778041178124926976/hydrogen-jukeboxes), nostalgebraist (2025): [DeepSeek R1](!W), [GPT-5](!W) as the "unreleased OpenAI model".
  Borrows the term "eyeball kick" from the ["Turkey City Lexicon"](https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-for-sf-workshops/) created by the [eponymous writing workshop](!W "Turkey City Writer's Workshop").
- <!-- 2025-11-27 -->["How to Identify AI-Written Web Fiction"](https://recordcrash.substack.com/p/how-to-identify-ai-written-web-fiction), Makin (2025): ChatGPT
- <!-- 2025-12-03 -->["Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?"](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html), Sam Kriss (2025): ChatGPT

## See also

- ["'AI mode collapse' directory"](https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/preference-learning/mode-collapse/index#gwern-2023-mode-collapse-section)

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Published 2025-12-09, updated 2025-12-09.

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