It’s the repetitiveness of style, the attempt to make everything seem as impactful as possible, the use of short sentences (too much Hemingway in the training data?), and obvious patterns like “it’s not this, it’s that” and several others.
Real human writing doesn’t follow such strict rules. When the same small set of rules is applied over and over throughout a text, it becomes obviously strange and machine-like.
Wikipedia's own "Signs of AI Writing" page distills it nicely:
I blame RLHF entirely for this. Nobody used to talk like AI speech before.
So is it the LLM or us that's getting the RLHF? /s