Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham said there's one word in an email that hints it was written by AI. AdvertisementThe word "delve" has been getting a lot of attention online over the last few days. That's because Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that using the word "delve" in an email pitch is a sign ChatGPT wrote it. The chart shows instances of "delve" used in articles like peer-reviewed journal papers and preprints from 1990 to 2024. According to AI Phrase Finder, which used a dataset of 50,000 ChatGPT responses, "delve" is in the top 10 words used by ChatGPT.

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