Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

Sam Kriss for the New York Times:

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According to the data, post-ChatGPT papers lean more on words like “underscore,” “highlight” and “showcase” than pre-ChatGPT papers [..] And “delve” [..] shot up by 2,700 percent.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.ClUh.Sb1fCpBAo94F&smid=url-share

#EmDash #linguistics #overfitting #ElaraVoss #LLM #NYTimes #SamKriss

#SamKriss on Israel/Palestine, simultaneously perhaps the best and truest thing i’ve read on the conflict, but also in its way one of the darkest and most nihilistic because, absent some sudden plague of bilateral paralytic shame, is there any way forward from here? https://samkriss.substack.com/p/against-the-brave