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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

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    Paul Graham 19 Aug 2026

    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

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