Some of what marks Arabic text as generated is script detail invisible to a non-reader, and some of it is a register default that a model applies whether or not it fits.
- Hamza placed on the wrong seat
- The hamza can sit on alif, waw, ya, or stand alone, and the correct seat is determined by surrounding vowels. Inconsistent placement across one document reads as a spelling error to a fluent reader.
- Tatweel with no function in prose
- The tatweel is a stretching character used in justified typeset text. It has no place in ordinary prose, yet copied text sometimes carries it forward regardless.
- Directional marks surviving a copy-paste
- Right-to-left and left-to-right marks inserted to fix display order in one system can remain embedded in text after it moves to another, invisibly breaking search and diffing.
- Fusha defaulted to where dialect was called for
- Modern Standard Arabic and spoken dialects (Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine, Maghrebi) are genuinely distinct registers with their own grammar and vocabulary. Models default to fusha regardless of whether the context calls for a dialect.
- Formal connectors arriving in sequence
- علاوة على ذلك، بالإضافة إلى ذلك appearing as the reflexive way to open a new point, independent of whether the argument requires one.