[OJFord]

'Embellishment' seems absolutely standard for a novel, some authors more than others, and it's exactly what you're taught to do clumsily in school.

The actions in the train scene didn't seem so bizarre to me, and even if they did we can still write bizarre events and characters? Similarly the spiderweb skin, where's the line between 'no human would ...' and writing a strange character?

I don't have anything like the OOP's experience with literature or even AI, but I'm not really convinced. It is nevertheless interesting that they believe they've identified it, and to think of the ramifications, aside from whether it's a correct analysis or not.

[herculity275]

> The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.

I'm ambivalent about a lot of other cited examples (could be AI, could just be bad ghostwriting) but this particular sentence does have very distinct AI smell.

[delis-thumbs-7e]

Have you ever touched spider web? Have you walked in a forrest and got spider web stuck on your face or clothes impossible to get rid of? Y’know how in such a moment you immediately think ”Oh yeah, this is exactly like my ol’ nan’s skin, real silky like”? Why are people gaslighting themselves to think that this kind of cheap garbage has not been produced with LLM’s for years at this point? People just actually getting used to the ”style” and starting to recognise it.

I hope to god those paragraphs were written by a LLM, since otherwise there no excuse in publishing such drivel. But the fact that people (many many people) buy this, read this and go ”yeah granma’s spider skin, that makes sense”, is far more scarier than few ghostwriters losing commissions.

Or should I say: ”Honestly? Me thinks we cooked.”