> Now consider that most conversation that gets recorded online, probably came about as the result of such "intended-productive interactions with people you don

> Now consider that most conversation that gets recorded online, probably came about as the result of such "intended-productive interactions with people you don't know very well" (think: LLaMa trained from buyers messaging sellers on Facebook Marketplace)... and it should be clear why LLMs look like this. The training dataset [mostly] looks like this! That wouldn't be my first guess, or my hundredth. I would tend to assign responsibility for the style to the "helpful, harmless assistant" idea that the major vendors enforce.