One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.
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19 Aug 2026
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsI was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".