Meanings
plural LLMisms
- A writing style or turn of phrase associated with LLM-generated text.
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As it has also become apparent through the massive exposure to commercial LLM outputs in recent years: many stylistic aspects of LLM-text (what we could rightly call "LLMisms"—such as the use of the m-dash, "it’s not just A, it's B" type phrases, or bullet-point listing) are already proving to be rather tiresome to encounter, and have increasingly become "old news" for most LLM-sensitive readers.
2026 April 13, João Gonçalves, Sonia de Jager, Petr Knoth, David Pride, Nick Jelicic, “SHARE: Social-Humanities AI for Research and Education”, in ArXiv, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2026
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LLMism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/LLMism
“LLMism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/LLMism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “LLMism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/LLMism.
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