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One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

SubjectAI writing
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AI writing Prose a model wrote: what gives it away, what it does to reading, and whether anyone should publish it.

What Paul Graham actually said

  1. Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
    I 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".

    ↗@paulg on Xx.com

    19 Aug 2026

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