Agreed it’s quite noticeable and irksome. I think part of the weirdness for me isn’t just the wordy final product it’s the fact that I know I’m reading human supervised writing rather than someone’s thoughts on a topic. Teacher friends are feeling pretty uncanny valley about having to grade the philosophical writing of LLMs.

I guess I was previously taking for granted when reading something that it meant at least one person cared about the topic and thought it was worth writing out. Not so anymore!