Writing

Experiments, findings, and notes from building unslop.

• All LLMs are liberal and left. Yes, even Grok, half the time.

  I ran the politicalcompass.org test on all major LLMs. They all landed in the lib-left quadrant. Grok as well, except when it didn't. There were two distinct personas that Grok assumed. This article aims to explain exactly how these results come about and what is happening with Grok specifically.

• Over 30% of papers submitted on arXiv read as AI-written

  I scored the full text of over 12,000 arXiv papers from 2021 to 2026 across ten different fields and found that about a third of the papers currently published on arXiv read as machine-written. There is also a clear upward trend. In this post, I try to give insight into what these results mean and what the limitations of my approach are.

• How the unslop AI detector works

  What it was trained on, how it is calibrated, why it was built, and what makes it better than other detectors for academic writing.