Wikipedia published a great article with key features of text AI
And yes, there's one in there about the long dash too (-)
The whole article is divided into subsections with examples, specific chatbot parasite words, and other signs of AI text. I recommend to read it at the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing. In short, here's what WIKI recommends you pay attention to when working with AI text:
Content:
- Overemphasis on symbolism, heritage and importance
- Overemphasis on fame, attribution and media coverage
- Surface analysis
- Advertising language
- Didactic, editorial reservations
- Summary of sections
- Conclusions in the form of a chart on problems and future prospects
- Wikipedia lists or common article titles as proper names
Language and grammar:
- Frequently used words from the «artificial intelligence dictionary»
- Negative parallelisms
- The outlines of the negatives
- Rule of three
- Vague attributions of opinion
- Elegant variation
- False ranges
Style:
- Capitalization
- Excessive use of bold type
- Vertical lists with embedded headings
- Emoji
- Abuse of long dashes
- Figurative quotation marks and apostrophes
- Post topics
A message intended for the user:
- Joint communication
- Disclaimer on limited information and assumptions about gaps in sources
- Immediate rejection
- Phrase patterns and placeholder text
Markup:
- Using Markdown
- Broken wikitext
- turn0search0
- contentReference, oaicite, oai_citation, attached_file
- Attribution and attributableIndex
- Non-existent or irrelevant categories and «see also» pages»
Quotes:
- Broken external links
- Invalid DOIs and ISBNs
- Improper or unconventional use of references
- Links (utm_source=)
- Named references declared in the references section but not used in the text of the article
Miscellaneous:
- Abrupt breaks
- Differences in writing style and English language variants
- The age of the text relative to the launch of ChatGPT
- Overwhelmingly detailed summaries of the edits
- «Submission Statements» in AFC projects
- AFC review templates rejected earlier
Ineffective Indicators:
- Impeccable grammar
- «Tasteless» or «robotic» prose
- «Sophisticated,» «academic,» or unusual words.
- A letter that looks like a letter
- Unions
- Unusual wikitext