Various LLM Smells
The article discusses the author's experience with using LLMs to enhance writing, noting a distinct style that emerged from AI-generated content. The author identifies recurring patterns, termed 'ai-smells', in both writing and website design that are recognizable across various platforms. This observation raises questions about the originality and uniqueness of AI-assisted creative tasks.
- ▪The author began using LLMs to improve their writing for a math blog.
- ▪They noticed specific sentence structures and styles appearing widely across the internet.
- ▪The term 'ai-smells' refers to recognizable patterns in AI-generated content.
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Various LLM smells 28 May, 2026 Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writing. The LLM generated writing obviously felt significantly better than my own writing. It had better vocabulary, interesting sentence structures etc etc. I swear it did not seem like AI-slop to me at the time. Then about 3 months later, I see the exact sentence structures appearing ACROSS THE ENTIRE F***** INTERNET. And what is fascinating to me is that ai-smell seems like an artifact that emerges across various AI assisted tasks that you can now easily recognize. A few examples that I've collected so far to show the "ai-smells" across two domains: 1.
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