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title: "How can you tell if something was written by ChatGPT?"
description: "Look for the common chatgpt tells stacked together. Em dashes in most paragraphs, curly quotes, phrases like \"it's not just X, it's Y,\" and rule-of-three lists like \"clear, concise, and correct.\"Add..."
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date: 2026-09-20
modified: 2026-09-20
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# How can you tell if something was written by ChatGPT?

Look for the common chatgpt tells stacked together. Em dashes in most paragraphs, curly quotes, phrases like "it's not just X, it's Y," and rule-of-three lists like "clear, concise, and correct."

Add the habit of restating your question before answering, plus a tidy summary at the end, and you're almost certainly looking at model output rather than a human draft.