Humans Break Linguistic Norms Far More Than LLMs — Maybe Why AI Text Smells Distinct

menhguin · x · 2026-11-11

menhguin speculates that humans disobey formal linguistic rules far more often than LLMs at the aggregate level, and that models have learned to associate such deviations with human content — potentially explaining why LLM output has such a distinct smell. He wonders if anyone has studied this systematically.

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