This list of AI "tells" in text generation on Wikipedia is a great rundown of things you commonly see in LLM output. I'm glad to see I don't use any of the common telltale phrases in my own writing as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
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