Just wrote this myself, although I did try to chatGPT-style it a bit. I thought the final third would serve to identify it as non-AI as it goes off on a tangent about isotopes...
> "The periodic table is a systematic ordering of elements by certain charcteristics including: the number of protons they contain, the number of electrons they usually have in their outer shells, and the nature of their partially-filled outermost orbitals."
> "Historically, there have been several different organizational approaches to classifying and grouping the elements, but the modern version originates with Dmitri Mendeleeve, a Russian chemist working in the mid-19th century."
> "However, the periodic table is also somewhat incomplete as it does not immediately reveal the distribution of isotopic variants of the individual elements, although that may be more of an issue for physicists than it is for chemists."
GPTZero says: "Your text is likely to be written entirely by AI"
Now I'm feeling existential dread... perhaps I am an AI running in a simulation and I just don't know it?
Technical writing, in order to be relatively unambiguous - the "technical" part - defines itself as a subset of English with a constrained grammar and vocabulary.
You just illustrated technical writing. Naturally, your writing style is very similar to that of other technical writing.
Take one guess what kind of writing exists in most of the text GPT is trained on.
A partisan writing cliched slogans and regurgitating tired political statements has a “temperature” closer to 0, likewise an engineer stringing together typical word combinations. A poetical writer with surprising twists and counterintuitive mixtures of words has a temperature closer to 1.0.
I can see a few clichés in your writing, also I did a search on some fragments of sentences which showed a number of results.
If you want to be less “robotic” then you could add whimsical or poetic wording, and less common turns of words (be a phrase rotator).
> "The periodic table is a systematic ordering of elements by certain charcteristics including: the number of protons they contain, the number of electrons they usually have in their outer shells, and the nature of their partially-filled outermost orbitals."
> "Historically, there have been several different organizational approaches to classifying and grouping the elements, but the modern version originates with Dmitri Mendeleeve, a Russian chemist working in the mid-19th century."
> "However, the periodic table is also somewhat incomplete as it does not immediately reveal the distribution of isotopic variants of the individual elements, although that may be more of an issue for physicists than it is for chemists."
GPTZero says: "Your text is likely to be written entirely by AI"
Now I'm feeling existential dread... perhaps I am an AI running in a simulation and I just don't know it?