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It isn't only LLMs that use rhetorical constructs like these, humans use them too.
by notarobot123 8mo ago
It isn't only LLMs that use rhetorical constructs like these, humans use them too.
- kuhaku22 8mo agoNot to mention these patterns didn't come out of thin air. The LLMs are statistically regurgitating language from its training set, which researchers probably tuned more towards journalistic sources like the one we're reading.
- CGMthrowaway 8mo agoYou're right of course. And it's cliche now, thanks to LLMs, so outlets like the New Yorker who pride themselves on good or interesting writing (which includes avoiding cliches) ought to find alternative rhetorical structuring.
- wongarsu 8mo agoFunnily enough "It isn't only X, Y too" doesn't trigger my AI-sense nearly as much as "It's not just X, it's Y". Similarly in the above quote the "It's not just U. It's not just V. It's not just X, it's Y" doesn't seem AI generated to me.
- CGMthrowaway 8mo ago"It isn't only X, Y too" triggers my NPR/NY media/cathedral sense. Because it's folksy affectation but by a trained writer who knows to avoid the weak words like "just."