The recent advances in LLMs have made me realize how important a signal well written English was to filtering content by quality. If the first few sentences were on topic, syntactically correct, and grammatically complex, it was worth skimming at least. This was obviously not remotely perfect, but it was pretty good. LLMs are blowing that up. They have not increased the amount of garbage on the internet (plenty of stupid people around to supply that), but they made it a lot easier to make garbage look superficially like it was thoughtfully written by an intelligent person.
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