What are burstiness and perplexity used for?

Burstiness and perplexity are two metrics that capture patterns in a piece of writing. Perplexity measures how easy it is to predict which words come next, and burstiness measures how easy it is to predict sentence structure and length. 

These measures are used by tools like QuillBot’s AI detector to guess whether something was written by a person or an AI. They can also be used to evaluate the quality of an AI text generator.