I've always felt that many people write like LLMs, even before LLMs. It had to come from somewhere. A lot of LLM writing is truly bad - but a lot of it is also

I've always felt that many people write like LLMs, even before LLMs. It had to come from somewhere. A lot of LLM writing is truly bad - but a lot of it is also just interpreted as an LLM style because of repetition, not because it is inherently bad.