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> book descriptions have become so bland and tropey that they tell us nothing about a title’s style or contents. Words like “dazzling,” “brilliant,” and “amazin
by elzbardico 3y ago
> book descriptions have become so bland and tropey that they tell us nothing about a title’s style or contents. Words like “dazzling,” “brilliant,” and “amazing” have become so ubiquitous as to lose all meaning.
There's a reason why tools like GPT seem so good when writing marketing, advertising and business copy in general. The problem is that this type of content has been for a long time completely devoid of... content. Most of this kind of text is formulaic, pompous and yet utterly devoid of deep meaning. It is as low-entropy as you can get. So, no wonder that a stochastic machine can produce this kind of text in a so believable manner.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoSo we know it will have achieved general intelligence when it can convincingly reproduce >90% of HN comments.
- elzbardico 3y agoI would be surprised if it couldn't right now. No matter what we think about ourselves, we're pretty much the same here and mostly comment the same stuff based on a few niches of beliefs and personal/professional experiences.
- RegW 3y agoAh. I was wondering why I can never find anything I want to watch on Netflix.