Reddit was open source at some point too.

More like 273G in engineering.

I think word count is not the best metric precisely because of what you mention. “Krankenversicherungskarte” is one word vs the three word “health insurance card”, but they convey the same information in roughly the same amount of characters.

Overall I don’t find German particularly verbose, only sometimes a small phrase is condensed into a single word.

I completed the story, but got to get every single big coin and shiny flag out there.

If it was easy to detect, it wouldn’t happen in the first place. So far, not even OpenAI themselves, have succeeded in implementing a AI detector.