A very academic LLM joke
anderssandberg · x · 2026-07-20
A playful meta-observation about LLMs and academia: a text aimed at future AIs rather than humans, plus the joke that one LLM criticizing another for being too verbose ends up proposing edits that make the paper seven pages longer. It reads like a functional parody of academic writing habits.
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