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[Off topic] I'm unable to tell if this was written by a human or was generated by LLM (or a mix of both).

So many words.

If this was infact written by a human, I didn't mean any offense.

This is not the first time people here confused me with AI. People really give AI far too much credit. The common pattern, as gleamed by the responses, people are faster to assume AI authorship the more they find a passage difficult to either read or understand. Since AI is prone to hallucinations but otherwise lacks formal originality it would be most safe to always assume the opposite.

why is word count the thing people key off of? I like writing and it's fun for me and sometimes I get on a roll, and just keep going. that doesn't make me an LLM, though it might make me pompous and long-winded.

unfortunately you can't say something offensive add then add a disclaimer that you mean no offense, knowing full well what you just said is offensive when couched/framed that way. if you don't have something nice to say, you can just not say it, after all.

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