alt Hacker NewsI think it's because LLMs are very good at tuning into the what the user wants the text to look like.
But if you're outside that and looking in the text usually screams AI. I see this all the time with job applications even those that think they "rewrote it all".
You are tempted to think the LLMs suggestion is acceptable far more than you would have produced it yourself.
It reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode Camille. It can't be all things to all people at the same time.
People are way worse at detecting LLM written short form content (like comments, blogs, articles etc) then they believe themselves to be...
With CVs/job applications? I guarantee you, if you'd actually do a real blind trial, you'd be wrong so often that you'd be embarrassed.
It does become detectable over time, as you get to know their own writing style etc, but it's bonkas people still think they're able to make these detections on first contact. The only reason you can hold that opinion is because you're never notified of the countless false positives and false negatives you've had.
There is a reason why the LLMs keep doing the same linguistic phrases like it's not x, it's y and numbered lists with Emojis etc... and that's because people have been doing that forever.