The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

This post by Dominic Fox captures something I ve noticed but struggled to put into words: I wonder whether the defining characteristic of LLM prose isn’t the tics it is irresistibly (statistically) attracted to, but its fundamental tranquility, its unturbulence. You can ask an LLM to write something full of Sturm und Drang and it will [ ]