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A specific sentence construction has become such a telltale sign of AI-generated content that it now reliably identifies synthetic writing.

A specific sentence construction has become such a telltale sign of AI-generated content that it now reliably identifies synthetic writing.

The phrase structure 'It's not just X — it's Y' appears so frequently in AI-generated text that it serves as a near-guaranteed indicator of machine authorship

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