I agree it is poorly written, but I don’t think it is, strictly speaking, ‘LLM slop’. Or if it is, it’s not an LLM I am familiar with, or is an unusual usage pattern in some way… It’s just not written with the usual stylistic tics of ChatGPT (4o or o3), Claude-3/4, Gemini-2.5, or DeepSeek-r1.
For example, he uses a space after EM DASH but not before; no LLM does that (they either use no space or both before-after); he also uses ‘1) ’ number formatting, where LLMs invariably use ‘1. ’ or ‘#. ’ proper Markdown (and generally won’t add in stylistic redundancy like ‘are twofold’); he also doesn’t do the 4o ‘twist ending’ for his conclusion, the way a LLM would insist on. The use of sentence fragments is also unusual: LLMs insist on writing in whole sentences. The use of specific proper nouns like a ‘KKK clansmen’ or ‘Neil deGrasse Tyson’ are unusual for a LLM (the former because it is treading close to forbidden territory, and the latter because LLMs are conservative in talking about living people). Then there is the condescension: a LLM chatbot persona is highly condescending, but in covert, subtle ways, and requiring an appropriate context like tutoring, and they’re usually careful to avoid coming off as obviously condescending in a regular argumentative context like this and prefer sycophancy (presumably because it’s easy for a rater to notice a condescending style and get ticked off by it).
I agree it is poorly written, but I don’t think it is, strictly speaking, ‘LLM slop’. Or if it is, it’s not an LLM I am familiar with, or is an unusual usage pattern in some way… It’s just not written with the usual stylistic tics of ChatGPT (4o or o3), Claude-3/4, Gemini-2.5, or DeepSeek-r1.
For example, he uses a space after EM DASH but not before; no LLM does that (they either use no space or both before-after); he also uses ‘1) ’ number formatting, where LLMs invariably use ‘1. ’ or ‘#. ’ proper Markdown (and generally won’t add in stylistic redundancy like ‘are twofold’); he also doesn’t do the 4o ‘twist ending’ for his conclusion, the way a LLM would insist on. The use of sentence fragments is also unusual: LLMs insist on writing in whole sentences. The use of specific proper nouns like a ‘KKK clansmen’ or ‘Neil deGrasse Tyson’ are unusual for a LLM (the former because it is treading close to forbidden territory, and the latter because LLMs are conservative in talking about living people). Then there is the condescension: a LLM chatbot persona is highly condescending, but in covert, subtle ways, and requiring an appropriate context like tutoring, and they’re usually careful to avoid coming off as obviously condescending in a regular argumentative context like this and prefer sycophancy (presumably because it’s easy for a rater to notice a condescending style and get ticked off by it).
He probably used a LLM and lightly edited it. The non-LLM punctuation and references would come from the editing.