[JonChesterfield]

Glossing over "is academia commonly fraudulent" as rather too easy a target, LLMs do tend to write much better than people in languages said people don't really know.

If I wrote the above in Spanish it would be extremely difficult to guess what I'm trying to say. If I ask an llm to translate it, some of the ideas would get across.

[anonymous908213]

Sure, but you'd still expect people to know from seeing LLM outputs in their own language that it's not going to be "too good to be human". An LLM will write a better Chinese essay than I could because I don't speak Chinese very well at all, but it's quite a leap to get from "this writes Chinese essays better than myself, a non-speaker" to "wow, this writes Chinese better than any human!".