AI Writing Tell: Overly Animating Inanimate Objects

Ethan Mollick highlights a telltale sign of AI writing: excessively attributing agency and action to inanimate objects, such as 'the code knows it.' Commenters see this over-anthropomorphization as a useful detection clue.

2026-09-17 ~ 2026-09-17 · 2 related posts

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