"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

Agent Smith, _The Matrix_

As far as I can see, there is still one tell that was missed/left in:

>Grok showed discipline, despite its goblin-like nature.

if you don't like the article that's fine, but it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post.

people use LLMs for writing. we know! get over it.. or don't... i don't really care.. but I'd rather read a discussion about the article contents and not the writing style.

this kind of comment is the new "discuss the font choice / background color / anything but what the article is actually saying."

"The battle royale answers one question cleanly" smells ChatGPT-generated.

But that was the only thing I tripped on. I enjoyed reading the article in general.

The actual content is no better, trust your nose

Multiple successive very short sentences are also anecdotally an LLM tell I think

> I want to be careful here.

was the giveaway for me

Exactly what I was thinking. Though I wonder at what point do some people start to think it's actually normal to write like this and start doing it without AI ...