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Just curious OP (if you're the one posting) -- what do you mean by independent researcher? What are you researching and are you making $$ from it or are you liv
by hasteg 5mo ago
Just curious OP (if you're the one posting) -- what do you mean by independent researcher? What are you researching and are you making $$ from it or are you living off previous built up savings? Seems like an interesting path. What research have you looked into so far?
- exceptione 5mo agoI am not the author, but he has been training/tuning? a model that produces text that mimics the source material in a more natural way. So getting the LLMs to produce less bland and boring LLMisms, according to the following up blog post.
- hsuduebc2 5mo agociting from the article: "I spent a long time trying high risk/high reward experiments and failing. But now I have something good. I’ve solved a major problem with LLMs. And I’m launching next Monday so we will soon see if it’s actually a breakthrough or just LLM psychosis " Maybe ai companies today have some bounty program?
- daemonologist 5mo agoThey have a subsequent post (from Monday) about what they've been working on: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distribution-fine-tuning/ https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri... (I would assume they haven't made a lot of $ off of this, if nothing else because they've only just put out that post and demo. They do seem to have produced a model that doesn't sound very LLM-y to my ear, though it also seems rather weak for its size.)
- bityard 5mo agoShallow take: They made an LLM that uses fewer emdashes. Cynical take: They made an LLM that can bypass existing AI slop detectors. Realistic take: They found a research problem they found interesting, dumped a bunch of capital and sweat equity into and (claimed to have, at least) found a solution. Neat!
- ryandrake 5mo agoOr they just have lots of money and a hobby. Someone else might blow $48K to get an old Cessna and go have fun flying around. Not everything needs to have a purpose.
- forsalebypwner 5mo agoYou were on the money with the Cynical take lol: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distribution-fine-tuning/#:~:text=Slop.%20It%E2%80%99s%20not,human%20writing%20samples. https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri...
- Philpax 5mo agoHuh? That's them intentionally demonstrating the slop style.