> This is just good writing. The kind that AI is meant to emulate. Alas we're at an age where writing well is identical to writing like a machine.
replyLiterally none of these statements are true.
But it's bad writing, as GP points out. The second paragraph is particularly confusing—its central metaphor is clumsy (in my experience LLMs struggle with metaphors).
replyThat said, maybe it's an artifact of being machine-translated from the original Russian.
This is terrible writing, and if you can't tell, there is something deeply wrong.
replyParts of this read like the early internal monologue sections of Cryptonomicon. Terrible or not, it's distinctive.
replyHaving used Claude a fair bit, it reads like the very distinct style Claude settles on when it tries to write fiction. I mean it's hugely improved from the early attempts of LLMs to create fiction (remember the adverbs!), but it's still pretty awful.
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