It is worse than that, it can make text unintelligible. I have Claude explain what is happening in a PR, and the technobabble and use of rare words have to look up in a dictionary make it difficult to understand. I need another LLM to translate what the LLM is saying.

And I pray it is because of the EU AI Act, because it is worth giving them my personal information to prove I am not in the EU so they can turn this off. Heck, I will pay more to avoid this crap.

If it were not so noticable, I would shrug it off. But it has made things clearly worse this year.

Unfortunately, that's unrelated; only models released after August 2nd support it so far, according to Anthropic.