As a data point (and also as a pro editor!), I have a significantly stronger “hmm maybe this sucks” instinct for LLM-y prose than for slightly broken English. Maybe you can get the best of both worlds if you ask only for typo fixes. LLM “clarity” edits are almost always tonally garbage in my experience (at least pre Opus 4; haven’t tried that one for this purpose yet)
As a data point (and also as a pro editor!), I have a significantly stronger “hmm maybe this sucks” instinct for LLM-y prose than for slightly broken English. Maybe you can get the best of both worlds if you ask only for typo fixes. LLM “clarity” edits are almost always tonally garbage in my experience (at least pre Opus 4; haven’t tried that one for this purpose yet)