conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing v3.14.0

v3.14.0 — Vague third-party validation

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First tagged release. The project has versioned via CHANGELOG.md since 1.0 — full history there. Tagged releases start here at the current version.

3.14.0 highlights

Added — Vague third-party validation (category 51): manufacturing credibility by pointing at an unnamed external authority ("independent testing confirms," "analysts agree"). The authority is faceless and the claim unfalsifiable. Specifically attributed, checkable validation — a named benchmark, a linked report, a dated audit — stays unflagged. The inverse of Notability name-dropping. Addresses #39 (follow-up half raised by @hiSandog).

Recent (3.13.0, same day)

• Speculative scenario openers — "Imagine a world where…" openings that persuade with a hypothetical instead of a claim. New detector type speculative-opener (45 detector types, 51 categories total).
• "deeply" as a conditional Tier 2 word — counts only in significance collocations ("deeply integrated"), never bare.
• Extensions to the contrastive, novelty-inflation, and name-dropping rules, sourced from a tropes.fyi gap review.