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Do you know why people began to associate em-dashes with LLM "writing"? Because LLMs don't actually write anything, they regurgitate - and one of the things they regurgitate is writing by human beings who used em-dashes. Same applies to sentence constructions.

Far from the first time, calling anything "almost a guarantee" that something was written by an "AI" is deeply irresponsible. LLMs imitate corpus, and if they use a given construction it's because it was in the human-written texts scraped to train them.

Cool, well in that case I'll just decide this article was written by AI and never glance at your publication again

"In this article we will..." The hilarious thing is that it probably got picked up by the scrapers because people use this phrase so much as a punchline

AI-generated fiction doesn't use that exact construction as often. Instead, it uses the somewhat similar "He didn't do the thing. Instead, he did another thing.".

I know it was intentional to use that construction in every sentence of the article, but it still made my eye twitch.

Someone on facebook was complaining about this because “academics, essayists, and advertisers use that formation all the time!” But that’s exactly why it’s such a tell. Real people generally don’t write social media posts the same way they write ad copy, but AI does.