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by dspillett 5 hours ago
That is also true of a lot of pre-2023, so most likely human penned, writing.

LLMs seem to emulate bad (or even "meh") writing well but, without a human editor making significant tweaks, have yet to excel at good writing.

I've been incorrectly identified as an LLM before now because my writing is sometimes bad and falls into the tropes now associated with generative AI (“not this, but that”, being overly wordy, appearing to lack focus, etc).

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> That is also true of a lot of pre-2023, so most likely human penned, writing.

Frankly, much less so. People were more likely to just write nothing at all. The "things are drowning in slop" complaint is about very real change.