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Researchers find six patterns that make AI text so exhausting to read

A study from New York University and the University of Texas at Austin found that frontier language models systematically overuse linguistic patterns that are hard for humans to parse, while smaller models write more like humans. The researchers trace the problem to training on code and math, where correctness gets rewarded but clarity does not.

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A study from New York University and the University of Texas at Austin shows that frontier language models systematically overuse linguistic patterns that are hard for humans to parse. The researchers trace the problem to training on code and math, where correctness gets rewarded but clarity doesn't. Smaller models, by contrast, write more like humans.

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