Structural tells
Shapes, not words: rule-of-three pileups, throat-clearing intros, and outros that restate the whole piece.
What it looks like
The phrases and patterns that give it away:
faster, smarter, betterIt's important to note that…Let me be clear,em-dash overuseexclamation inflation
In the wild
A real one, quoted verbatim — the underlined words are the tell.
“Smarter, Faster, Better: Inside the ESP+ November 2025 Release”
ASI (Advertising Specialty Institute) ↗ — product-release announcement
Why AI produces it
Models optimize for fluent, balanced-sounding prose, which drifts toward symmetrical structures and throat-clearing regardless of the actual content.
How UnSlopIt handles it
UnSlopIt flags structural tells and rewrites around it — cutting the tell while keeping your meaning, facts, and voice. You see exactly what changed, as a redline plus a clean version.
Related tells
Knowing the tell is half of it. The five-step method covers how to fix a whole draft, not just one pattern.