[Article] A Glyph Is Not a Letter, a Token Is Not a Word, a Space Is Not a Space

[rikforto]

The other AI fingerprint is a number of the sections (and you are absolutely right the appendices are even worse about this) are way, way too short. There is not nearly enough explanation of their methodology nor justification for it, and the conclusions are very much from the "the numbers explain themselves" school of thinking. While these can be problems with human writing, especially when the human comes out of a field where the expectations are practical rather than academic, that's not my sense here

As someone who hates AI writing for it's own sake, the "must earn" tic is most irritating to me for being a reasonable point---both in context and in more generally for those of us modelling these problems