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A French-speaking blogger uses LLMs for grammar, copyediting, and translation when writing in English. The author keeps a history of edits from a prompt that asks for light stylistic edits, avoiding passive voice and filler words. The LLM corrected "long time" to "long-standing" and preferred a defining relative clause for "RIB sharding.

The tell of AI slop is the absence of a person behind the text. Clean sentences and logical structure without genuine human presence mark high-effort-looking output with no one home. Senior engineers and editors spot this within two paragraphs.
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