'Smell of burning copper': the LLM writing quirk that may trace back to DeepSeek R1
aiamblichus · x · 2026-11-11
The author observes that 'smell of burning copper' recurs as a distinctive phrase in LLM writing — a stylistic fingerprint he first noticed with DeepSeek R1 — and shares an excerpt of AI-generated parody prose as evidence, calling for systematic study of when the phrase tends to appear.
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