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A lot of Terry Pratchett is higher-order humor (references between alternate meanings of words), which seems hard for a general purpose LLM to grok. Hence you g

• notahacker 3y ago
  Oh, I'd expect an LLM to fail to imitate the higher order humour (I'd probably answer the question with a troll failing to count on his fingers, an Igor offering to lend a hand and a pocket device containing a very annoying imp or a room-sized magical calculating device from Unseen University yielding the answer in the form of a very argumentative chatbot, possibly called something that rhymes with Bing.) But the tone ChatGPT uses is just odd like it's unable to pattern match Pratchett's prose at all so it just goes for a non-standard conversational tone it associates with "style", and throws in vague references to Discworld and dragons and multiverses rather than references to characters because the only thing in its "Terry Pratchett" data is a handful of words scraped from book blurbs which suggests it has a high conceptual overlap with "fantasy". I want someone to train an LLM on Discworld now...