Your writing sounds like ChatGPT.

Here's what's giving you away:

I can spot AI-generated content within seconds.

And I'm not even looking for it.

Certain patterns just jump off the page once you've seen them enough times.

The 5 categories of AI tells:

1. Significance inflation

→ Everything becomes "pivotal" or "crucial"

→ Words like "underscores," "testament to," "setting the stage"

→ Humans would rarely say “marking a pivotal moment”

2. The vocabulary fingerprint

→ "Delve," "tapestry," "multifaceted," "navigate"

→ These words spiked dramatically after 2023

→ Where there's one, there are usually others

3. Structure tells

→ Em dash (—) overload (multiple per paragraph)

→ Curly quotation marks instead of straight ones

→ Title Case On Every Heading

4. Sycophancy residue

→ AI sometimes leaves traces of its training

→ "As of my last training update..."

→ "Great question!"

5. Avoidance patterns

→ Never uses simple "is" or "are"

→ Always groups things using rule of three

→ "Not just X, but Y" comparatives everywhere