Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing

What hackers pick instead

• Mahjong: A Visual GuidePeople recommend this free visual guide for learning mahjong, saying it is clear, comprehensive and well designed.9recommend
• Unsloth guidesFree guides from Unsloth.ai for running and fine-tuning local models, recommended as a practical starting point with the technical details included.8recommend
• Making SoftwareA free website of thorough, beautifully illustrated explanations of technical topics like color spaces, valued for its real educational depth.6recommend

Every quote

The 30 most detailed of 35 comments. Each links to the original.

1. The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate your sensors

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “The Most-Seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages”

2. Wikipedia also has an exhaustive guide, though it's not fun finding tropes you use yourself

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “LLM Writing Tropes.md”

3. Wikipedia also has a great resource which covers many of the common LLM patterns

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Various LLM Smells”

4. you can also detect yourself doing these same things sometimes, and fix them

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation”

5. This article on wiki has fantastic advice about ways that LLM writing fails

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages”

6. There's a Wikipedia article with a nice list of LLM writing patterns

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Arguing with Agents”

7. is a good starting point. You start seeing patterns at some point.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “The Engine Behind the Hype”

8. very useful in writing skills to help avoid these kinds of issues

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “/Deslop”

9. everyone who is sick of reading generated text should read this

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup”

10. the article in general covers a lot of AI writing styles

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “ManusAI Joins Meta”

11. Wikipedia's article "Signs of AI Writing" is a good read

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and everywhere”

12. Wikipedia has an excellent article about exactly this

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “What 81,000 people want from AI”

13. Wikipedia has a great guideline on spotting AI text

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate”

14. a human-generated (and maintained) list

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “/Deslop”

15. well-documented patterns by Wikipedia

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Various LLM Smells”

16. A substantive human-written resource

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “LLM Writing Tropes.md”

17. Wikipedia has a great list

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country”

18. very interesting and informative. It goes into a lot more detail than the typical "em-dashes" heuristic.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup”

19. a much better explanation and arguments for not immediately blaming someone for using ai

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “It's Not Just X. It's Y”

20. This is very good, but I'm surprised the term "game-changer" is not mentioned there.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup”

21. I think they are good resources, but fallible in the long run.

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “The first 40 months of the AI era”

22. Here's an article on llmisms from people on the front lines.

    Recommends · Jul 2026

23. The wikipedia page Signs of AI Writing is quite a good one

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Claude's New Constitution”

24. This is a handy resources - for humans and for bots

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM”

25. Wikipedia also has an exhaustive guide

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “LLM Writing Tropes.md”

26. The best resource i’ve seen on this

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “How to Spot AI Writing”

27. The actually useful tips are here

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes”

28. You might find this a fun read

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?”

29. a great link to share around !

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days”

30. Thanks for the Wikipedia tip.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “The Most-Seen UI on the Internet? Redesigning Turnstile and Challenge Pages”