[peterlk]

AI output reads like homepage marketing content (e.g. the text that fades in when you scroll down an apple product page) expanded to fill some context window size (the paragraphs tend to be about the same size).

What you get is vacuous, choppy, wordy, and hyperbolic. I have found that adding secondary passes for tone and style improve the readability dramatically.

[vonunov]

Marketing content without a reader persona or a writer persona, or rather, without the backing of a real consciousness with agency and life experience. I wonder if this might be part of why there are waves of different tells (in addition to the model updates): People pick up on an uncanniness in the writing but aren't fully aware of it or its nature, so they seek indicators and find what's there to find at the time