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"It was hot. The kind of hot that falls and doesn't melt."

Or

"It wasn't just cold, it was kind of cold that doesn't ask for much, but gives it anyway."

Or

"The light was bright. The kind of light that shines but doesn't hide. It just glows like a sun."

Like 😭 the prose don't even be making no damn sense most times when you look at it and read it back. And that's because ai likes comparisons like that to sound more dramatic, BUT IT CAN'T FUCKING WRITE. And I noticed it in quite a few popular fanfics I see on my dash.

"The kind of BLANK that BLANKS." and "It doesn't XYZ, it ABCs."

Idk 😶 I'm just. If you're a baby writer, please don't think that's how prose works. You're copying people who probably use ai to supplement their stories.

And I know what you're thinking. You let the AI answer about AI? And yeah, I did. Cause it sourced where it got it from and I clicked the links to see if they were credible lol.

One of the first things I saw:

I actually agree with most of this stance, especially the last parts, so I'll link it here. But this is a literal example of someone who uses AI and sees the patterns too. It's not the phrase "the kind of" in of itself, it's the way it's being used and how often.

There's even a Reddit Post where people who use AI compile all the obvious tells to try and avoid them lol That one I will not be linking. I'm not trying to give people ideas on how to trick others.

And the people who openly write with AI will always confirm the pattern

I'm not a pro, but I have friends who are doctors, in residency that have to see AI everyday because people use it to write up reports.

The ones I notice the most in storytelling are stuff like what's listed above.

Making a bunch of short sentences that sound like they're supposed to be for emphasis. But AI does it ALL THE TIME. It's spammed constantly throughout the story where they had AI write it with a prompt. And it's usually where there should just be a comma or other punctuation:

Like this. No commas. No thought. Only mindless vibes. They say something. Then it there's a period. Always.

The spamming of rhetorical questions that get answered immediately✨

That girl? She ran. She ran far away. But that boy? He stayed put. Always looking around. And the man with the gun? Tall. Smiling. With intent.

^^"With intent" and "with intention" is a trickier one, but it's also a common tell.

AI doesn't know the difference between intention and purpose (some people don't either so grain of salt added). But in general AI will use it, trying to be descriptive, and it ends up not making sense:

"She walked into the room with intent."

The intent to do what exactly?? 🤷🏾‍♀️

"He moved slowly, methodically, with intention."

Again, with the intention to do what?? If you have to ask, it's not used correctly lol. I'll give the example I gave to a friend. Imagine you ask someone: "Did you see where that man went went?" And they responds with: "I don't know, but he moved with intent."

Does that make sense to you? The word intent/intention/intentional, when used the normal human, way goes more like this:

See how the word intent is in subtext to the word murderous here?

And here, the intention is stated as meaning to ask a question:

Here, the word intentional is used in reference to an action that was just performed:

Pretty sure this one is self-explanatory now lol

I would get into how AI stories have plots that go no where because it had no sense of the idea of "Show, Don't Tell", but I think this enough.

Those constant, stacked, short, tiny sentences ✌🏾for emphasis✌🏾Usually in threes lol:

“It’s not just not just X, it’s Y!” Formula only a different variation. In this case “It’s XYZ, but never ABC.” Also not sure why CGPT is so obsessed with saying something hasn’t been “earned” or is/isn’t “loud” and “announcing itself” lol Then, the constant rhetorical question with the immediate answers to describe things without showing it:

Here’s the “loud” thing again, and the excessive nonsensical purple prose. Still not sure what surveillance socks are or why they blinked in morse code, but I digress. Sentences that “announce” or tell you things constantly and should honestly have a comma between them lmao I don’t think CGPT know what resonance means either. Like…it’s a descriptive noun. It’s just like the whole “with intent” thing. And once again with the need to nonsensically describe things as some kind of sound or announcement because it thinks that’s a good description of “quiet power”.

The descriptive and comparison metaphors are always the most egregious. And most times, once you see a buzz phrase, you can search the text and find it several times over and over used throughout the work in strange ways.

I've even seen that one tell with people using bullet-point lists randomly in stories or comments to list objects that characters are interacting with or random traits 💀

And if you need more tells, I got you:

"They (do)don't XYZ." "Didn't need to." or alternatively "Always does/was/have."

And:

"A BLANK doesn't 123, it XYZs." Or any variation of those phrases. Usually but not always as short little sentences.

Or more popularly the list comparison formula:

"Not XYZ." "Not ABC." "Not 123." "Just/Only/But BLANK." Followed up by some one word sentences as adjectives or verbs like "Steady, sure, quiet, stillness, intent" that may or may not make sense.

And alllll of these were taken from separate examples by multiple different people and…I honestly cry a little every time because I can't NOT see these things.

And no, I do not care that people will read this, recognize exactly what I’m talking about, and scroll by and pretend they don’t see it. You probably gonna see it again down the line LMAO Feel free to “announce yourself” so I can block you.

Pumping this hot doodoo garbage into people’s fandoms and fun hobbies because you want to back-pats for a skill that you don’t have, or didn’t earn, is bird-brain behavior✨

2026 is the year of finding out when you fuck around and violate creative spaces for me.