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Wharton's Ethan Mollick says growing familiarity with AI tools helps users easily recognize machine-generated text

Automated accounts and video scripts increasingly use undisguised AI text.

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As more people come to recognize the tells of AI, which mostly happens as you start to work with AI a lot, the scales are going to fall from their eyes and they are going to realize what some of us already see: how much of this site (and blog posts, articles, papers) are AI now.

3:25 PM Β· May 24, 2026 View on X

@emollick So many huge accounts on here post fully generated posts and articles now, even ones that have nothing to do with AI. They don't even bother to hide the most basic tells.

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

As more people come to recognize the tells of AI, which mostly happens as you start to work with AI a lot, the scales are going to fall from their eyes and they are going to realize what some of us already see: how much of this site (and blog posts, articles, papers) are AI now.

10:25 PM Β· May 24, 2026 Β· 14.5K Views
10:37 PM Β· May 24, 2026 Β· 738 Views

@emollick i’ve even noticed it with youtubers. clearly just reading ai scripts.

somehow feels a step worse.

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

As more people come to recognize the tells of AI, which mostly happens as you start to work with AI a lot, the scales are going to fall from their eyes and they are going to realize what some of us already see: how much of this site (and blog posts, articles, papers) are AI now.

10:25 PM Β· May 24, 2026 Β· 14.5K Views
10:30 PM Β· May 24, 2026 Β· 1.3K Views
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