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I rather enjoyed it. I also enjoyed reading something that did not give me the immediate impression it was AI generated.

"Write a snarky, cynical opinion piece about Google in the style of Lewis Black."

The Opus 4.7 output was remarkably similar to the content in this blog.

I noticed it as LLM-written by the middle of the second paragraph. The text is filled with classic rhetorical structures LLMs love making, especially the "it isn't X, it's Y" and "not A, not B, not C, but D" patterns.

It’s the repetitive paragraph structure that raised my suspicions.

Sentence. Short sentence. Noun. Noun. Noun. Sentence to reflect. Wrap it up in a bow.

Sequences of short incomplete sentences, particularly in threes is such a tell

hate pieces tend to rank highly. better if it's hating on big co

Why is the cat in the catnip again?

It has a good title

What makes you say that it was poorly written? I actually quite enjoyed it. I don't know if that says more about the writing, or me.

In english lit as a high-school student, I always thought I did reasonably well on my assignments, but consistently got C's. It was very infuriating.