I meant the beginning didn't show a lot! I don't have exactly zero tolerance because sometimes there's enough signal in the slop, my point was mainly that the signal seems to sharply drop off after a certain point in this article. (I've complimented authors before for managing to keep an article relatively information-dense despite having a lot of clear LLM tells. That shows care, and so I don't object to it.)
replyI have a suspicion that in these cases, either people are purposefully copyediting only the very beginning, or the very beginning has most of the prompt and the rest is pure extension.
Or they write a short article or a rough draft, and get the clanker to zhuzh it up. I've experimented with clankers doing writing for me, but they freaking suck so I refuse to do that any longer, and what I noticed is they tended to just change a lot of what I wrote but then extended the writing with no-meaning bullshit and removed all of the soul from my writing at the same time.
replyIMO: writing ~= thinking and if you let a clanker write for you then you'll forget how to think properly, so no one should be doing it.
> Or they write a short article or a rough draft, and get the clanker to zhuzh it up.
replyThat's what I mean by "the very beginning has most of the prompt" :)