I have a hard time with articles where it’s either ChatGPT or somebody getting paid by the word. The weird extra sentence padding shows up in both.

Also non-writers trying to sound professional or official do a lot of echolalia, repeating phrases that "sound right" but which they don't really understand, which is something AI also does.

A student tried to combine their own writing with ChatGPT to pad things in an essay for my class this spring, and it was really sad. 50% awkward but interesting human-written explanations/analysis, 50% wildly repetitive bland repetitive repeating also repetitive sentences with repetition.

I suspect it's more about attempting to game SEO than it is about getting paid by the word. 'cause nobody is getting paid for this shit. (says a frequently laid off and very, very tired writer)

*nods* I took journalism classes, as well as lots of English, in college, and some of the stuff posted online as journalism would not get passing grades by my previous professors :-(

It's a kick in my teeth because my university is pushing professors to use chat gpt in classrooms (no I don't know why) so my professors have responded by demanding in person, hand-written assignments for the like menial week to week check in assignments.

There’s a certain oily slickness to GPT text, like all the sprues are sanded off. It has the same feeling as movies where the script is written by committee

I find I bounce off a lot of articles now because if there's a person in there, they absolutely ran it through a program to give it that opaque "first year trying to write in academicese" feel. And I just can't understand it without putting way more effort than I care to.