Original Notion chat
ChatGPT
You listed human passages for the quiz:
Highlights and Photographs From the 2018 Winter Olympics: A Blending of Traditional and Rock Music.
Why "Chrono Trigger" Holds Up in 2018: A Fresh Perspective.
The Simple Secret of Manhood Is Love.
You asked whether they sound like AI.
ChatGPT responded:
The Atlantic passage sounds the most AI-like.
The Chrono Trigger passage sounds somewhat AI-like.
The Olympics passage sounds least AI-like.
It explained that the Atlantic passage has clean negative parallelism, emotional reassurance, universalizing language, polished moral insight, and a soft affirming cadence.
You asked for replacements and considered a paragraph you wrote about parody. ChatGPT said the parody paragraph reads more AI-like than the Olympics passage because it is abstract, repetitive, taxonomic, and over-explanatory, but then you clarified that you wrote it and did not want to use it.
The chat then returned to Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing and looked for human-written passages that sound AI-like under the same criteria.
It repeatedly recommended The Atlantic sentence:
"The simple secret of manhood is love. It is almost embarrassing to write that down. Not because it sounds so hokey, but because, deep down, it is something all of us already know."
It also searched for pre-2020 or older examples with em dashes, noun-heavy phrasing, objectivity, and negative parallelism.
ChatGPT can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.