Key Takeaways
Do you mean "they have a style that you can learn, surely you can recognise this style!", yes, but the default style is ~ a mix of Kenyan (because they were cheap RHLF trainers) with some of how word processors will auto-replace -- with —, and also it's trivial to just ask them to use a different style.
Biggest tells are that they respond with superhuman speed, and that they're moderately competent across an inhumanly broad range of skills while being masters of almost nothing.
The default configuration is easy to spot.
It's easy to change that configuration and make them hard to spot.
Hope you get something more useful from someone else :)
The former, how would I tell? I'd have to find someone whose writing style I don't know to be the human comparison, in order to blind myself.
The latter: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674
It's just… the "tells" are just easy to remove, is all.
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