Beyond "AI Language": The case for the idiolectal nature of LLM output

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06589v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:03:13 GMT
• Title: Beyond "AI Language": The case for the idiolectal nature of LLM output
• Abstract summary: Large language model outputs are frequently analysed as a collective super variety termed "AI language"<n>This chapter argues that this perspective coexists with distinct, model-specific linguistic signatures akin to human idiolects.
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• Abstract: While large language model outputs are frequently analysed as a collective super variety termed "AI language," this chapter argues that this perspective coexists with distinct, model-specific linguistic signatures akin to human idiolects. We analyse two datasets of LLM-generated texts on societal topics: a 2024 corpus of six models (Improta et al. 2024) and a newly generated 2026 corpus using the same prompts featuring six contemporary models. Our findings, utilising computational descriptors and stylometric principal component analysis reveal a generational shift between the style of the 2024 and 2026 cohorts, while demonstrating that each individual model maintains a unique linguistic profile. This multi-layered interplay is illustrated by contraction frequencies, which vary from over 1,200 to over 30,000 per million words within the same cohort of models (2026). Ultimately, we conclude that treating LLM output as idiolectal in nature provides a valuable framework with potential implications for research on variation and change, LLM-generated text detection, forensic linguistics and usage-based approaches to language.

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