Lossy expansion or bloat?

Depends on if you are buying tokens or being paid for tokens

Seven bullet points squeezed into five pages of text

Students where doing that for the ages when they have to answer questions like. "Answer the following question in not less than 4 pages"...

In that case it's supposed show that the student can write four pages and not just about transferring information.

A broken telephone.

TAM: $50T

It's been a huge boon to hardware vendors.