Lol, I might need help, but not cause of this. In the end, it doesn’t really matter either way, but I do think it’s interesting what writing quirks make someone perceive a text as more likely to be generated.

Yes, darling, I’m not illiterate. I don’t think every long, grammatically correct text with sub-headings is generated. Sometimes I even write long-form text myself.

What tripped me up here is:

• the use of “— listed” for some of the things… listed,
• the two short definitive sentences here

355 of the 552 usernames are plain alphabetic, twelve characters or under, median length eight. Only 36 look like spam registrations. A bot list looks like the opposite of that.

• the way an already obvious but irrelevant point is overstated here

Seven of them aren’t even Lemmy. There are Mastodon and Friendica accounts in there: people who have never used Lemmy, hidden by a Lemmy frontend, with no possible way of finding out.

• the way something obvious from context is stated in a dramatic way here

I have the list and I’m not posting it.

• “Doesn’t survive the X” is a very Claude sentence for me. It is also a statement I feel isn’t entirely supported by fact, since the mayority of the active users and communities here are leftist.

A lot of that domain list is real spam defence. It filters conservatism as well as communism. “It targets the left” doesn’t survive the data and I’m not going to pretend it does.

• X is not Y statement, with X and Y being actions done by entirely different parties, which doesn’t really make sense contextually.

But forking isn’t disclosure,

• They stated they’d put the full list in the comments, which they didn’t do, and which also doesn’t jive with the earlier statement about hiding individual usernames. Also, the unedited feels superfluous.

Full contents of every list, unedited, in the comments.

Sorry for the shitty formatting, I am writing this on the train to have something to do after my headphones died. Also, there isn’t any definitive proof here, but all of this contributes to the generated feel.

There’s a lot of specific sentence fragments that read very LLM to me. In the end, that of course isn’t proof, and there definitely are people who’s style is very close to what LLMs output today.

This all sucks, but also, please stop using LLMs to write long (or any) texts. It ends up sounding silly.