Genuine question, why is this a tell? It looks like good dramatic writing to me.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
That structure is common. "Not X, but Y" plus "Rule of three." It's not that humans don't ever use that structure, but it's rare outside of LLM output.
Any single data point doesn't mean it was LLM generated, but they add up.
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Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
That structure is common. "Not X, but Y" plus "Rule of three." It's not that humans don't ever use that structure, but it's rare outside of LLM output.
Any single data point doesn't mean it was LLM generated, but they add up.