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caseyohara

All of the bulleted lists are a strong indicator too. ChatGPT loves bulleted lists.

Also all of the leading sentence adverbs:

> Furthermore, ... (used six times)

> Finally, ... (used three times)

> Accordingly, ... (used three times)

> Overall, ... (used two times)

> Similarly, ... (used six times)

> In addition, ... (used five times)

> For example, ... (used 34 times)

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I write like this because starting sentences is hard.

Those leading adverbs are part and parcel and a very common structure lmao

I know, I write that way too. But combined with what BugsJustFindMe pointed out, it smells like it was written by AI. It's all so repetitive and robotic.

> It's all so repetitive and robotic.

Lots of writing is, because generations of people have been trained that "grammatical but formulaic and bland" is the way to write. AI writing is reinforced by the training process, the human trainers were probably trained by they English teachers in a certain way.

That's the consequence of designing a curriculum for ~68-70% of the population.

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