active · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: cooking, parenting
“usually”, “mostly”, “typically”, “generally”, “slightly” — each is normal English; the density is the tell. Models qualify nearly every claim with one. Any single match means nothing; several per paragraph reads as AI.
Density tell — scored very low per match by design.
model specificity: cross-model; rising across generations
◑ appears in good human writing too (collateral score 0.33 — the closer to 1, the more it also fires on acclaimed pre-AI prose)
…is usually the main factor… mostly a texture issue… typically fine at room temperature…
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 | 23.91 | 12.98 | 12.37 | 7.96 |
| hn | 18.26 | — | 12.15 | |
| cooking | 46.71 | — | 20.53 | |
| parenting | 18.66 | — | 7.53 | |
| 2.17 | — | — |
regex: \b(usually|mostly|typically|generally|slightly)\b