In some cases an AI will make a weird word choice. So do a lot of humans. Sometimes AIs are needlessly wordy. Um...so are a lot of humans. Rinse and repeat. AI detectors are useless. The AIs are training on human writing, so they write fundamentally like humans. How is this not obvious?
In the general internet the reputation of AI writing is that it's writing that's bad/awkward in a way that is often identifiable (by humans) as not having been written by humans. AI detectors are useless, you're right, but for the same reason AI is unreliable in other contexts, not because AI writing is reliably passable.
You should check out reddit sometime. It's been nearly twenty years (not hyperbole) of everyone accusing everyone else of being a bot/shill. Humans are utterly incapable of detecting such things. They're not even capable of detecting Nigerian prince emails as scams.
> not because AI writing is reliably passable. "Newspaper editor" used to be a job because human writing isn't reliably passable. I say this not to be glib, but rather because sometimes it's easy for me to forget that. I have to keep reminding myself.
Also, has it not occurred to anyone that deep down in the brainmeat, humans might actually be employing some sort of organic LLM when they engage in writing? That technology actually managed to imitate that faculty at some low level? So even when a human really writes something, it's still an LLM doing so? When you type in the replies to me, are you not trying to figure out what the next word or sentence should be? If you screw it up and rearrange phrases and sentences, are you not doing what the LLM does in some way?