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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
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, consistently, throughout the entire piece.
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## Sentence Structure
### The Em-Dash Pivot: "Not X...but Y"
### The Em-Dash Pivot: "Not X, but Y"
A negation followed by an em-dash and a reframe.
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> "The answer is simple: we need to rethink our approach from the ground up."
Models reach for this in every other paragraph. The construction is perfectly
normal; the frequency gives it away.
normal. The frequency gives it away.
### The Triple Construction