active · formatting · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking, parenting
**Bolding** key phrases in contexts where no human would: forum answers, comments, casual replies. Humans in our matched corpora essentially never bold; models do it constantly (90×+ in advice registers).
model specificity: cross-model; declining but still extreme
**Salt, correctly timed** — Salting early and adequately…
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-07 (run #2: 3 current + 3 vintage models, 3 matched registers, 1,392 samples)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 30.67 | 57.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| hn | 1.64 | — | 0.00 | |
| cooking | 61.15 | — | 0.00 | |
| parenting | 33.20 | — | 0.00 | |
| 66.29 | — | — |
regex: \*\*[^*\n]{2,80}\*\*