No Claude was not involved in any way in me writing it, and honestly it's kind of getting depressing how many comments are constantly questioning peoples use of LLMs.
It is depressing though, writing feels like it's in part becoming a game of outpacing the latest LLM's idiosyncrasies so we can signal authenticity, which perversely, is achieved through using an LLM enough so that you can become familiar with its flavor of communication.
I actually laughed quite a lot to begin with, GPT models saying things like "...might look like P, but is NP wearing a hat and a lab coat..." and "...is a haunted house disguised as a git repository..."; but alas when you've heard them a million times everywhere it really starts to bite.
What was the book in 1997? That's about the time of my first UAP sighting.
My apologies, and I do appreciate your reply.