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 # LLM Prose Tells
 
-All of these show up in human writing occasionally. No single one is conclusive
-on its own. The difference is concentration. A person might lean on one or two
-of these habits across an entire essay, but LLM output will use fifteen of them
-per paragraph.
+Human writers occasionally use every pattern in this document. The reason they
+work as tells is that LLM output packs fifteen of them into a paragraph.
 
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