ChatGPT's love of 'provenance' becomes a telltale sign of AI-written text

Astrophysicists note that ChatGPT and Codex frequently use the word 'provenance,' which real scientists rarely say, making it a signal of AI-generated text, though CS researchers argue the term is legitimately common in their field.

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