Sadly I think it’ll be just a dead, poorly written internet moving forward.
Maybe the article is interesting. I don’t know. It’s exhausting to read.
Would we think this was poorly written if we read just this one text 20 years ago? I don't know the answer.
One example strongly tied to culture is cliched writing.
Things become cliche as they are get overused; no amount of cleverness in the cliche itself can overcome this. Claude's writing has rapidly become cliche because it uses the same pool of stock phrases and words. People pick up on this and have the same reaction as they do to any other cliche piece.
Let's take two works generally seen as good: if Lord of the Rings or Foundation released today, they would probably be panned as cliche because they created those tropes in the first place, which future authors copied or built upon. So yes, most would not think this is poorly written 20 years ago because this style didn't exist yet and it wasn't cliche.
Claude vibe-writing isn't "bad" because it is grammatically or structurally bad. It's bad because it's overused and signals to the reader - whether intentional or not - certain things about how much the prompter values the written piece.
Classical is 562nd of 960 by score so far. The article did not make that clear, which is on me.
...as opposed to a dishonest score?
The reason is simple. I built this because I wanted the answer for myself. I still don't know if it is useful to anyone else. So I put my effort into running the tournament and almost none into writing about it. Clearly that shows.
The tournament is real. Stockfish 15.1 with NNUE turned off, same time control and same hardware for every game. 460,800 games played, 921,600 total. No model touched the numbers.