alt Hacker NewsSorry to hijack this thread to promote but I believe it's for a good and relevant cause: directly identifying and calling out AI writing.
I was literally just working on a directory of the most common tropes/tics/structures that LLMs use in their writing and thought it would be relevant to post here: https://tropes.fyi/
Very much inspired by Wikipedia's own efforts to curb AI contributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
Lmk if you find it useful, will likely ShowHN it once polished.
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The obvious question is: was it vibe coded? :)
As much as I'd like to know whether a text was written by a human or not, I'm saddened by the fact that some of these writing patterns have been poisoned by these tools. I enjoy, use, and find many of them to be an elegant way to get a point across. And I refuse to give up the em dash! So if that flags any of my writing—so be it.
This is a very bad idea unless you have 100% accuracy in identifying AI generated writing, which is impossible. Otherwise, your tool will be more-often used to harass people who use those tropes organically without AI.
This behavior has already been happening with Pangram Labs which supposedly does have good AI detection.