In a blind comparison, three AI models preferred machine-generated literary passages over works by famous authors more than 90% of the time, with DeepSeek V4 Flash choosing machine text in 94% of deci…
Herman Melville's Moby Dick contains 26.4 em dashes per 1,000 words, while Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Bram Stoker's Dracula contain none, according to an analysis by Claude Watermark Resear…
The Atlantic published an essay on June 15, 2026 arguing that surface 'tells' used to identify machine writing are unreliable, drawing an analogy to 19th-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso. The ess…
The rise of AI writing offers an opportunity to examine literature, but identifying AI-generated text through surface-level quirks like em dashes is unreliable. AI's style reveals it has no fixed self…