Excessive headings for short sections is the easiest thing to spot first as you can raise a red flag just by scrolling. I recommend scrolling any AI-adjacent article and see how many headings it has, and how often they start with the word "The".

You'll then find lots of "Blah blah blah: blah blah blah." Ten of the sentences in this article are of that form.

Then there's of course "it's not x but y". It avoids that exact construction, but is still plentiful in the article.

> What happened next was not a reasoned evaluation of competing paradigms. It was a gold rush.

> Not because the methods it displaced had stopped working, but because the money, the talent, and the prestige had moved elsewhere.