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Is This Slop? Detecting AI-Generated Content Without a Model

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AI detectors are surprisingly bad at their job, with human accuracy hovering around 19-59%, barely better than guessing. Certain patterns, like overusing words such as "delve," contrastive phrasing, excessive hedging, em-dashes, and repeated fictional names like Marcus Chen, reveal AI-generated text because they stem directly from how models are trained on human preferences.

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