Oh my goodness yes, I almost missed it that the text is (mostly?) AI written. That said I agree that LMArena elo scores are pushing models in the wrong direction. They move more towards McDonald's than quality food.
How can you tell? (honest question, I really can't)
The article makes strong points, includes real data and quotes, shows proof of work (sampling 100 Q&A), so does that even matter at this point? This doesn't feel like "slop" to me at all.
The text definitely the "jump from dramatic crescendo to dramatic crescendo" quality of certain LLM texts. If you read closely, it also has adjective choice that's more for dramatic than appropriate to the circumstances involves (a quality of LLM texts it also helpfully explains).
I don't know if this proves it's an LLM text or whether that style is simply spilling out everywhere.
Yea I also didn't think this was written by ai, it sounded human enough to me. It's kind of a bummer that there's all these patterns that LLM's follow in their output that cause people to have a knee jerk reaction and instantly call it ai slop. I know there is a ton of ai garbage out there these days, but I really couldn't tell with this article.
