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What Distinguishes AI-Generated from Human Writing? A Rapid Review of the Literature

2026-01-06

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Large language models (LLMs) are now routine writing tools across various domains, intensifying questions about when text should be treated as human-authored, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated, or collaboratively produced. This rapid review aimed to identify cue families reported in empirical studies as distinguishing AI from human-authored text and to assess how stable these cues are across genres/tasks, tex...

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Literature Corpus work: a084c418-dab1-5bd9-9f6a-c2f8cad96a63
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202601.0350.v1

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