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So when Spero posts a time-series chart of hundreds of articles showing when a journalist’s output started sounding fishily like ChatGPT, I am inclined to believe it.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Posted by the official Game of Thrones YouTube account, the video displays footage from the Season 8 world premiere set to a beat that sounds fishily like the “Starboy” singer’s music.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2019

He moved his hand fishily in the air, unable to describe what he imagined.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But—desinit in piscem—it ends fishily; and we find, after saturnine fashion, in cauda venenum.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

And Flint stabbed at him with his forefinger, while the other financier regarded him with a fishily amused eye.

From The Air Trust by England, George Allan