It is possible to get evidence for this claim without blind tests. For example: start interacting more with prose from an LLM you don’t interact with often (I recently discovered that I like Kimi K2.5′s prose much better than Claude’s, for example, so I’m interacting with it more). Track your ability to distinguish that LLM’s outputs (and your subjective taste/distaste for those patterns) over time. If you start to dislike tics that you didn’t notice before, that’s reasonable evidence that you’ve come to associate those tics with writing that lacks the sort of interiority described here, or at least with writing that lacks some desirable quality that’s hard to specify.
It is possible to get evidence for this claim without blind tests. For example: start interacting more with prose from an LLM you don’t interact with often (I recently discovered that I like Kimi K2.5′s prose much better than Claude’s, for example, so I’m interacting with it more). Track your ability to distinguish that LLM’s outputs (and your subjective taste/distaste for those patterns) over time. If you start to dislike tics that you didn’t notice before, that’s reasonable evidence that you’ve come to associate those tics with writing that lacks the sort of interiority described here, or at least with writing that lacks some desirable quality that’s hard to specify.