FeaturedCraft · 3 min read
The nine tells that make AI text obvious
Nine categories of habit that give a draft away, and what each one costs to fix. Six of them are removals. Here is the whole published taxonomy, with examples.
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Notes on editing machine text
What machine-written drafts have in common, why the usual advice about it is wrong, and what actually changes a draft. Every claim carries its source.
From the piece
In today's fast-paced world, it is important to note that a stock opener is the cheapest tell to remove.
A stock opener carries no information about the subject. Cutting it costs nothing.More in this series
Guides · 5 min read
Can a teacher check a student’s text for the ChatGPT watermark?
OpenAI’s textGrain detector is not public, and Turnitin and GPTZero score how writing reads. What a check can show, what a result would prove, and what to look at instead.
Guides · 5 min read
Does the ChatGPT watermark survive copy-paste, Word and Docs?
The mark sits in the words, so a paste keeps it and no word processor shows it. What Word and Docs can reveal instead, with the steps from Microsoft and Google.
Research · 6 min read
What the ChatGPT text watermark is, and what Grok has instead
OpenAI announced textGrain on 5 October 2026. Where it applies, what its detector misses, and why the narrow space in ChatGPT answers was never the mark.
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