Some of what marks Russian text as generated is character-level detail invisible on screen, and some of it is a register default that reads formal in a way ordinary usage typically is not.
- Cyrillic and Latin homoglyphs mixed
- Cyrillic а, е, о, р, с are visually identical to Latin a, e, o, p, c but occupy different codepoints. Text assembled or copied across systems can end up with an invisible mix that disrupts search, spell-check and copy-paste.
- Straight quotes in place of yolochki
- Correct Russian typography uses angled «yolochki», with „lower-upper" quotes reserved for a nested level, not the straight or curly English-style marks generated text frequently defaults to.
- Kantselyarit throughout
- Осуществление мероприятий по, в целях обеспечения: dense officialese inherited from Soviet administrative writing, reached for by default whenever the content sounds even slightly formal, where a plain verb would read more naturally.
- Formal connectors arriving in sequence
- таким образом, кроме того, в связи с этим appearing as the reflexive way to open a new point rather than because the argument requires one.
- Calques translated too literally
- Phrasing carried over word for word from an English prompt rather than rendered as a native Russian speaker would actually phrase it.