Those commas do appear to be a load-bearing seam for the sentence — that’s not guaranteed proof, it’s just strong indication.

The honest read: it’s not just AI, it’s annoying!

You mean "smoking gun".

This is also a very common way to write (hence why LLM tend to regurgitate it so much).

It always reminds me of how how Apple write the copy for their landing pages. (A couple of examples from the current MacBook Neo page include "Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo. Four stunning colors. One durable design" and "macOS. Easy to use. Runs all your go-to apps. Puts the fun in functional".) It's quite similar to a rhetorical device called the ascending tricolon, and it's definitely not normally how people speak or write unless they're making a deliberate effort to achieve this effect.

This makes sense because AI is optimized to trigger dopamine in corporate executives.

disclose: "AI is one more tool. I use it for mechanical tasks: polishing the wording, catching typos, suggesting synonyms, improving or adapting code blocks and translating the article between Spanish and English."

The first half of the article seemed fine, but then it appeared padded with AI filler.

I write like this sometimes, and I've come to deeply resent the fact that AI slop-machines mimic things that make some writers' style "suspect" or "AI smells".

The slop-machines write the way they do because they have been fed material, and they then spew that back out. So any writer whose style looks a little different, eccentric, or unique may find that the slop-machine's stochastic processes lead them into a state where the pool of possible continuations is small enough that the mimicry is strong.

My wife's writings have recently been labelled as "probably AI" ... and we are livid.

But there's nothing we can do except write in a style that is not truly our own, just to avoid the inaccurate "slop identification" algorithms from smearing us.

Vile machines.

/rant

Human smell.

AI was definitely used in the writing; it’s a pity.