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Yes and no. LLMs take all the writing on the Internet (good and bad) and average it out. It's similar to the way generative AI images always have an identifiable, artificial "look". They've averaged out the personality and thereby erased the individuality that went into the efforts the original artists used to create them.

Yup, I'll agree with that. It certainly does end up with a generic tone that has become ubiquitous. It's like the Continental English accent that actors and news hosts are taught to use - they all sound the same because they have all been taught to sound the same.

> Much of my writing reads like an LLM wrote it,

I doubt it; share something you wrote prior to, say... 2024.

No, this statement is not true for anything except a base model. Benchmaxxing during RL phase is how you get the advertisement style "punchy" writing, because even though people don't usually write that way it is eye catching and people will vote for the bullet-point emdash slop. I wonder if some lab will be bold enough to do "anti rlhf", lmarena score be damned.