Caitlin Talbot

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135 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Taken littorally: Spain’s sudden crisis in Ceuta · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And unsurprisingly, the most overused word, therefore, is and because everything is just sort of stuck together in these long, rambling sentences.

One other thing we found is that there's less varied punctuation.

So you might find that in an article that AI has written, it's only full stops.

And now the third thing was we looked at the sentence level.

That allowed us to see how passages are built.

So these long sentences with lots of ands.

And then also when they do sort of want to liven things up, AI will often turn to a well-worn rhetorical structure, like it's not X, but Y, it's not only but also, or

rules of three and that's grouping things together within a sentence in threes.

So the economist also quite likes the rule of three and we often group together pieces of advice in threes.

But AI will offer sentences like this.

The mystery has been solved.

Not partially, not ambiguously, but definitively.

That's the kind of rule of three that we're seeing.

Pretty redundant.

Don't know why you would have thought that the mystery had been solved ambiguously, because it's been solved.

Yeah, well I think that in doing this study we notice that AI for as much as it wants to impress us or write well, it falls into some of the traps of bad human writing.

Therefore, I think it's never been more important that you aren't sloppy.

I think it's never been more important to be creative in what you're writing and to

make yourself distinctive from AI by being creative.

I'd say that the other thing that we learnt, and we argue this in our leader pages, is that

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