@Em0nM4stodonEm It's hard to avoid. Someone sent me a document to review a couple of weeks ago.

By page 4, I was thinking 'this person knows this stuff, why is he writing this weirdly structured nonsense?' I got a bit further and it was in the 'not even wrong' category. Individual sentences were mostly kind-of true, but they didn't hang together in any kind of useful narrative or add up to a sensible set of things.

I ignored the last 3/4 of the document and said 'it reads weirdly like AI'. It turns out, it was 100% slop.

I wasted more time writing feedback than it would have taken me to write the thing from scratch correctly.

Even if you ignore the ethical aspects, you're still left with the problem that these things are just crap. They make you look productive (look, I wrote a 20 page report!) but suck that productivity out of everyone else who has to deal with the fact that the thing you've written is of negative value.

They're even worse for code, where it's easy to sneak in subtle bugs that pass review and then spend weeks trying to fix them.