Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia

@0xabad1dea Isn't this basically just another "Who's adapting faster" situation?

The more detailed the list becomes, the easier it is to simply adapt AI generated content to avoid these things, eventually making it harder and harder to tell if something is written by AI.

@christopherklay @0xabad1dea When you say "simply", that sounds to me like the siren song of AI: that you can just try anything, and maybe it will work. But if you read that list more closely, these are more like signs of defects, not just styles, so fixing them is not simple. A person who knows what they're talking about and wrote this way can simply edit their writing to be clearer and less clichéd. A person would have a harder time if they were trying to cover up the fact that they don't know as much as they want people to think they know. I suspect likewise an AI would need to be able to better retrieve and process actual information to avoid these mistakes.