Study: AI chatbots overuse six writing patterns that make their text tiring to read

The Decoder reports a study from New York University and the University of Texas at Austin of 14 language models, including Claude, GPT-5.6 and smaller open models. The researchers analysed 120 conversations, 45 coding sessions and 980 essays against human text. They found models overuse unusual word pairings, distant sentence parts, dropped connectors, stacked nouns, nouns turned into verbs and animate verbs for objects.

• When you use AI for something customers will read, ask for short sentences and plain words, then read the result aloud and cut any sentence you stumble on.
• Do not paste AI text straight into emails or your website: change odd phrases and verbs such as 'calendar it' into what you would actually say.

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