Signs of AI writing

"Signs of AI writing" (abbreviated as AISIGNS or as wikilink WP:AISIGNS) is a community-maintained resource on English Wikipedia that lists writing and formatting conventions commonly found in text generated by large language models. Created in 2023, the page began to receive significant media coverage in 2025.

Contents

The page lists fundamental writing features of LLMs, including the placement of "undue emphasis on symbolism and importance", frequent use of the rule of three, and the use of negative parallelism. These signs of AI writing typically have a longer duration than superficial signs, such as em dashes, which began to be used less by AI chatbots after they were identified as an indicator of AI.

Impact

The list is used by a Claude plugin to help make text generated by large language models sound more human-like.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The full title of the page is "Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing", containing the wiki namespace.

References

  1. ↑ Clair, Grant (20 August 2025). "Wikipedia publishes list of AI writing tells". Boing Boing. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 Smith, Thomas (27 August 2025). "Want to disguise your AI writing? Start with Wikipedia's new list". Fast Company. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  3. ↑ "Wikipedia editors publish new guide to help readers detect entries written by AI". NPR. 5 September 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia". TechCrunch. 20 November 2025. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
  5. ↑ Basu, Saikat (25 May 2026). "Wikipedia may have built the best AI writing detection guide". MakeUseOf. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  6. ↑ Edwards, Benj (21 January 2026). "Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them". Ars Technica. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  7. ↑ Roth, Emma (22 January 2026). "This plugin uses Wikipedia's AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human". The Verge. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  8. ↑ Edwards, Benj (22 January 2026). "A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to 'Humanize' Chatbots". Wired. Retrieved 23 January 2026.