readability

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October 26, 2026
analysis

NYU and UT Austin study: 14 language models overuse six constructions that make text harder to read

Researchers at New York University and the University of Texas at Austin analyzed output from 14 language models and identified six linguistic constructions that frontier models overuse compared with human writing. Smaller models such as Llama and the Olmo base model came closest to human text, and the authors point to post-training as the likely cause.