Hemingway's style had a lot of influence. It would not surprise me if text influenced by it is widespread in the LLM training corpus.
replyPeak HN moment: comparing AI-generated text to Hemingway.
replyYou can ask your favorite LLMs to imitate Hemingway; I suppose they'd be comparably successful.
replyWhat you see as "AI-generated" looks more like translation, or written in English by a non-native speaker. The author is German, it appears.
> I suppose they'd be comparably successful.
replyYes, so, not particularly.