How to Check If a Document Is AI-Generated: 7 Signals That Actually Hold Up

AI text 'detectors' are not the answer. Here is what a competent reviewer actually checks before deciding a document was written by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.

Summary

The reliable signals — burstiness, lexical entropy, em-dash density, citation hallucination, metadata footprint — and why off-the-shelf 'AI detectors' produce false positives on plain corporate writing.

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