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I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless
by alwa 5mo ago
I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included:
> Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for seven years.
> Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes.
> No university, no lab, no funding. He pulled down the dataset, wrote his own code from scratch, and ran every test independently.
> one telescope, one mountain, one drawer of plates.
> Different telescope. Different continent. Same signature.
> Signed and numbered. Just 150 copies. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
> […]the wider corpus this comic was built from. The science holds because the receipts hold.
> The Palomar Lights — a story told in data, glass, and light.
- postepowanieadm 5mo agoMaybe it's me not being a native speaker, but that seems okish?
- zimpenfish 5mo agoIt's not technically wrong but the super-short abrupt sentence format of "A. B. C."[0] is weird if you repeat it. You can get away with it once or twice as a kind of rhetorical flourish but if you keep doing it, it starts to sound like a one-trick pony (or a clanker.) (IMHO, obvs., I'm not the King of English.) [0] e.g. "Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes."
- data-ottawa 5mo agoI just read a pre-LLM thriller written almost exactly like this. This is dialed up to eleven, but this is a fairly common writing style. It switches my brain into skimming mode very quickly, as it reads quite padded.
- soopypoos 5mo agole mediocrity machine is inevitably a hack