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GPT models tend toward purple prose - "an elegy to the intangible plague that had unmade the certainty of their intertwined tomorrows" is very showy, which is g
by joegibbs 2y ago
GPT models tend toward purple prose - "an elegy to the intangible plague that had unmade the certainty of their intertwined tomorrows" is very showy, which is good when you're trying to prove that your model knows how to put words together without sounding robotic, but it's not a very good impersonation of Nabokov, who if you look at a random sample from one of his works actually wrote a lot more plainly.
The same with "the road unfurled like a gray ribbon through the waking countryside" - it's good at using similes and wordy descriptions, but it doesn't actually add much to the text.
- astrange 2y agoApparently much of ChatGPT's purple prose and occasional rare word usage is because it's speaking African-accented English because they used Kenyan/Nigerian workers for training.
- ayewo 2y ago> Apparently much of ChatGPT's purple prose and occasional rare word usage is because it's speaking African-accented English because they used Kenyan/Nigerian workers for training. Do you have a source for the 2nd part of your claim that they use Nigerians for RLHF? I’m know OpenAI use Kenyans via Sama / Samasource [0] and it has been discussed here [1] before. 0: https://www.sama.com/ https://www.sama.com/ 1: OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421
- astrange 2y agoMostly that some of the words it uses like "delve" are common in Nigerian English, according to them anyway, and they consider themselves especially big fans of writing purple prose the same way it does. https://www.nairaland.com/3716282/nigerians-use-english-language-bbc https://www.nairaland.com/3716282/nigerians-use-english-lang...
- ayewo 2y agoDelve is not commonly used Nigerian English nor is it common in the corrupt form of English that is widely spoken in Nigeria called pidgin. The link you shared doesn’t really back up your claim though. It merely talks about government communications and reporting by the press that tend to use unfamiliar words when simple words would have done the same job. That’s a phenomenon that’s not unique to Nigerians though.