Comment by bityard
1 day ago
Shallow take: They made an LLM that uses fewer emdashes.
Cynical take: They made an LLM that can bypass existing AI slop detectors.
Realistic take: They found a research problem they found interesting, dumped a bunch of capital and sweat equity into and (claimed to have, at least) found a solution. Neat!
Or they just have lots of money and a hobby. Someone else might blow $48K to get an old Cessna and go have fun flying around. Not everything needs to have a purpose.
A self-described "broke grad student [who has] been saving up for this for years."
Risking their own money and time instead of leveraging a PowerPoint to hire other peoples' labor with other peoples' money. I can respect that.
You read that line wrong.
You were on the money with the Cynical take lol:
https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri...
Huh? That's them intentionally demonstrating the slop style.