I was thinking that publishing some of the handwritten notes (or as many of them as possible) might help. For me, that would be enough evidence to indicate that a writer wasn't lazy and came up with these ideas on their own - assuming the writing itself doesn't have any obvious AI tropes in.

But I feel like there are other ways, and I'm curious what ideas everyone else has

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There's no way. Did you use Google search when researching something? You just used AI.

Watch a related video to something you just watched? You just used AI.

The entire concept of being able to detect AI use is flawed from the start. It might have worked—as a concept—if there was just one AI model. Then you could check against its most common outputs and give it half sentences to see if it generates the same output as what the author wrote.

Now we have dozens and dozens of models and they have new releases every few months. You'd have to perform that kind of checking for each and every version that exists!

Let's say you wanted to detect Gemini: Well, they're on 3.8 (Flash) now but just a few weeks ago they were on 3.6. Is the output of 3.8 really that different from 3.6? Yes! Enough that it would make detecting if it wrote some part of a sentence nearly impossible.

Was this sentence modified by Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Qwen, GLM, Llama, or any number of dozens of versions of dozens of models with these numbers increasing exponentially over time?

It's just not going to happen.

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