Stuart Dren
Active Member
The low regard for paragraph structure made me think of Wikipedia, where it doesn't seem weird due to all the footnotes.For some reason, stumbled upon this on Amazon as a book description. I scrolled down to see who translated the work, because it was NOT Longfellow as it claimed.
I think this is 100% AI writing. Because "Florence, which is present-day Italy" is so weird. Also, I have NOT heard of Le Rimes and Italian uses il and la! French uses le. I could be wrong. And it's weird that it lays out so many facts in a row. Also, Le Rime upon googling looks like either his work or a collaborative work. But still, haven't heard of it, or it didn't stick in my head. It also misses La Vita Nouva. His second most popular book.
What's your verdict? AI or not?
It's possible some copy-pasting, paraphrasing was performed by someone who doesn't write English well. The details themselves could have come from an LLM, but the broad structure or lack thereof doesn't seem LLM-like to me.