[hasteg]

Just curious OP (if you're the one posting) -- what do you mean by independent researcher? What are you researching and are you making $$ from it or are you living off previous built up savings? Seems like an interesting path. What research have you looked into so far?

[daemonologist]

They have a subsequent post (from Monday) about what they've been working on: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri...

(I would assume they haven't made a lot of $ off of this, if nothing else because they've only just put out that post and demo. They do seem to have produced a model that doesn't sound very LLM-y to my ear, though it also seems rather weak for its size.)

[bityard]

Shallow take: They made an LLM that uses fewer emdashes.

Cynical take: They made an LLM that can bypass existing AI slop detectors.

Realistic take: They found a research problem they found interesting, dumped a bunch of capital and sweat equity into and (claimed to have, at least) found a solution. Neat!

[ryandrake]

Or they just have lots of money and a hobby. Someone else might blow $48K to get an old Cessna and go have fun flying around. Not everything needs to have a purpose.

[axus]

A self-described "broke grad student [who has] been saving up for this for years."

Risking their own money and time instead of leveraging a PowerPoint to hire other peoples' labor with other peoples' money. I can respect that.

[nhinck2]

You read that line wrong.

[forsalebypwner]

You were on the money with the Cynical take lol:

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri...

[Philpax]

Huh? That's them intentionally demonstrating the slop style.

[exceptione]

I am not the author, but he has been training/tuning? a model that produces text that mimics the source material in a more natural way. So getting the LLMs to produce less bland and boring LLMisms, according to the following up blog post.

[hsuduebc2]

citing from the article:

"I spent a long time trying high risk/high reward experiments and failing. But now I have something good. I’ve solved a major problem with LLMs. And I’m launching next Monday so we will soon see if it’s actually a breakthrough or just LLM psychosis "

Maybe ai companies today have some bounty program?