> You wouldn't complain as much if it were merely poorly written by a human.

Obviously.

> It gets the information across.

If it is poorly written by a human? Sure!

> The novelty of complaining about a new style of bad writing

But it's not a "new style of bad writing", is it?

The problem is that LLM-generated content is more often than not wrong. It is only worth reading if a human has invested time into post-processing it. However, LLMs make badly-written low-quality content look the same as badly-written high-quality content or decently-written high-quality content. It is impossible for the reader to quickly distinguish properly post-processed LLM output from time-wasting slop.

On the other hand, if its written by a human it is often quite easy to distinguish badly-written low-quality content from badly-written high-quality content. And the writing was never the important part: it has always been about the content. There are plenty of non-native English tech enthusiasts writing absolute gems in the most broken English you can imagine! Nobody has ever had trouble distinguishing those from low-quality garbage.

But the vast majority of LLM-generated content I come across on the internet is slop and a waste of my time. My eyeballs are being DDoSed. The only logical action upon noticing that something is LLM-generated content is to abort reading it and assume it is slop as well. Like it or not, LLMs have become a sign of poor quality.

By extension, the issue with using LLMs for important content is that you are making it look indistinguishable from slop. You are loudly signaling to the reader that it isn't worth their time. So yes, if you want people to read it, stick to bad human writing!