You can also look at past posts by the same author (before LLM usage proliferated) if you’re curious.

The project is still very cool, but it’s a little less enjoyable to read when everything sounds the same. It would be just as annoying for people to manually write in a corporate/marketing style, because humanity is what makes the small web interesting.

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/privategithubcicd/

Because their custom training data contains an emphasis on such verbiage. It doesn't come from the God-knows-how-many TB of web content the model is pre-trained on. There, such phrasing is only a drop in the sea. But the "yes, you're right" phrases, the em dash, etc., come from the later stage, for which content is created according to some (probably overprecise) guidelines.

Marketing content.

> Where do you think llms learned to write that way?

Not from individual human content, that's for sure - maybe MLM marketing copy? Sleazy 4AM ads?

I mean, every time this response comes up, I keep asking the person to point at something written prior to 2022 that gets 80%+ on the LLM detectors, and yet no one can find anything.

Maybe you, postalrat, can find something written in this style that was published prior to 2022.