to be fully transparent, I used LLM to review my draft yes. and interestingly enough, this article had tens of thousands of more views and estimulated significantly more discussions than my other, non-LLM written articles. so there's that.

So maybe it works! They are of course models distilling the best click-baity eyeball trapping engagement processes.

Why pretend? You mean your draft was the meat of the article and you had an LLM make it an article (sentences rather than bullet points?)

This is absolutely not a small draft review or edit.