active · formatting · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: cooking, parenting
Answering a casual question with a formatted mini-wiki: bullet lists, sections, a summary. In the cooking register models used bullets at 134× the human rate. A list is innocent on its own; the tell is a list where a human would write three sentences.
Scored per item; only fires meaningfully when text is short relative to its list count.
A few common examples: - US “arugula” = UK/AU/NZ “rocket” - US “cilantro” = …
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 | 31.79 | 29.27 | 3.68 | 0.28 |
| hn | 2.01 | — | 7.62 | |
| cooking | 74.17 | — | 0.54 | |
| parenting | 45.27 | — | 0.00 | |
| 7.61 | — | — |
regex: ^\s*[-*•]