Bad News

I find I've been doing this long before LLMs though. A lot of time you open an article, and the writing is just terrible, you try get through a few paragraphs and just give up. Most content online just isn't well written or that interesting. You're right that text that's clearly LLM generated tends to be a good indication of low quality though. But I find the tells come not from the writing style like using em dashes, but from the superficial quality of the content. LLMs are not good at generating any depth or actual analysis, so the text that's LLM generated reads like a bunch of sound bites strung together.