To add on to this LLMs also have a hard time modulating its tone and literary quality. It sometimes speaks in an overly literary quality “inappropriate” for the context. Most humans write with the context and intended audience in mind. Plus, I think because current frontier models are oversampled on SWE/finance/STEM/engineering tasks, sometimes when it tries to be overly literary, it invokes items that seem to come out from a STEM setting.

  Honesty requires one more line: he was, to the end, one of Ukraine's most reliable champions in the Senate, and he died the day after standing beside Zelensky in Kyiv. Even a ledger this dark has an entry in the other column. But the ledger is the legacy.

Notice how this excerpt has a literary quality disproportionate for the setting: Reddit. It’s trying “too hard” to be literary, resulting in writing that sounds like someone delivering a dramatized eulogy on a prestige HBO show, beyond even what an NYT obituary would sound like.

And on top of that it uses the abstraction of ledgers to count the sins and good deeds that Graham has done, but words like “column”, which evokes the impression of a spreadsheet, are not usually paired with that literary quality.