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{{see also|AI text|AI content|AI content detectors}}
[[Burstiness]] or text burstiness refers to the pattern of sentence length in written text. Humans tend to write in a bursty fashion with short and long sentences interspersed, while machines tend to write uniformly with mostly sentences of the same length. [[GPTZero]] primarily detects this difference. To measure text burstiness, one looks at the probability distribution of sentence length. A neat, uniform probability distribution indicates a computer-generated text, while a messy, inconsistent distribution suggests human writing.

Writing content with high burstiness, along with high [[perplexity]], is the main method to avoid being flagged as [[AI content generation|AI generated content]] by [[AI content detectors]] like [[Originality.AI]], [[GPTZero]] and the [[OpenAI AI Text Classifier]]. See the full [[guide]] [[How to write articles to be undetectable by AI content detectors|about how to write articles to be undetectable by AI content detectors]].

==Explain like I'm 5 (ELI5)==
Burstiness is like when you talk a lot at once and then become quiet for a while. It's how humans naturally write and express ourselves. So when we talk continuously at the exact same pace for a long time, [[AI content detectors]] will think that we are robots.


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