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Why is AI such a bad writer? Phrasing like this feels like reading Fox News.
by rhubarbtree 8mo ago
Why is AI such a bad writer? Phrasing like this feels like reading Fox News.
- cindyllm 8mo ago[dead]
- gf263 8mo agoI saw someone point out something like: ai makes every sentence count. There’s no building or allowing a point to breathe. Every sentence is an axiom to get the meaning across, and its so grating
- oytis 8mo agoIt's an interesting way to view it, because what happens in fact is likely the opposite - AI is asked to expand a few bullet points into a blog post
- whstl 8mo agoMaking fluff sound grandiose is probably what makes so grating.
- bcooke 8mo agoMaybe that's why the writing feels so terrible. The AI is attempting to maximize every sentence while simultaneously expanding on just a few actually meaningful points. And the net result of that dissonance is this rage-inducing vapidity. It's the written equivalent of the Uncanny Valley.
- oytis 8mo agoI think it has got past the uncanny valley really - it does read like a human, just a very attention-seeking one, like your typical LinkedIn salesman. That's probably just default settings though - I asked it to rewrite, and most of the tell-tale signs are gone as I can see (apart from the em-dash) https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69a46b290fb08191ad3bd93066b8cad4 https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69a46b290fb08191ad3bd93066b8cad4
- oytis 8mo agoTo be honest it still feels crazy that AI is a writer at all. But yeah, not a good one
- lelanthran 8mo ago> Why is AI such a bad writer? A better question is "Why can't the devs producing code with AI spot the same poor patterns in the code they are generating?" Maybe my point is that, to a poor speaker of English, the AI blogpost looks good and reads well. In much the same way, to a poor programmer, the AI produced code looks good and reads well. In a nutshell, if it generates poor English, WTF would anyone think it generates anything but poor code?