Marcus Olang’ Glossary
Marcus Olang’ is a Kenyan writer whose essay I’m Kenyan. I Don’t Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me became important to the Dictionary’s AI-writing cluster. His argument is that many alleged ChatGPT tells—polished structure, formal phrasing, careful transitions—are also features of human writers shaped by education, exams, second-language English, and postcolonial linguistic history.
That point matters because AI detection often confuses style with authorship. If a reader treats certain global-English registers as inherently machine-like, the detection problem becomes a cultural problem, not just a technical one.
Olang’ is therefore a named warning against the lazy version of AI detection: mistaking unfamiliar human prose for synthetic prose because the reader’s model of “human voice” is too narrow.