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# Researchers find six patterns that make AI text so exhausting to read

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**Published:** 2026-10-26T17:50:15.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

A study by New York University and the University of Texas at Austin found that frontier language models overuse linguistic patterns that are hard for humans to parse, a tendency linked to training on code and math where correctness is rewarded over clarity, while smaller models write more like humans\.

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