Tl;DR: “The short answer is no, they don’t [work reliably]”
Using a LLM to decide whether a text was written by a LLM is largely a fool's errand, and you will have an enormous amount of false positives.
(Not that the self-proclaimed "experts" at recognising LLM-generated text are much better. Most of their "telltale signs" are just BS.)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01358-2
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