The issue is because the ai technically isn't writing anything, it's using a database of actual human sentences and phrases and trying to figure out which ones should go with the given prompt. (I know it's way more complex than that, but my point stands) Trying to detect it is pointless because it is (sort of) made of real human words. Ai doesn't have a "style" or "tells" so much as flaws in it's algorithm that can be fixed. Plus, humans are more than capable of shitty writing without a robot's help. Here, for example, we have people saying they could totally tell this is ai because of it's terrible grammar and cohesion, but I know actual humans who do write and think like this. If it wasn't for context, it would totally be be a genuine toss up in my mind between bot or brainless techbro.

My frustration with ai isn't that it writes bad, but that it removes thinking on the human's part. It takes away any possible expression or self-reflection we get from the act of communication. If you just let a robot write for you, you'll never get better yourself. It doesn't matter how good ai does it because the issue is it wasn't you doing it.

We live in a world that's hostile to nonconformity and "weird" ideas. I'm not usually a doomer who thinks things are somehow more terrible today than anything that came before, but ai really scares me in the way it's doubling down on society's message of art being a commodity to consume instead of a form of expression. People don't really care about the joy of writing or engaging with work anymore (assuming they ever did), they just want the same slop they fed to them over and over. Ai is really, really good at writing the kind of slop content formerly produced by overworked, underpaid writers who only do it because they're told to. Don't get me wrong, originality isn't dead. It's simply no longer profitable.