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This worries me. Some AI writing styles became mainstream; at first it was the em-dashes, now it’s “A, not B” patterns and excessive acknowledging. There will b

by thih9 4mo ago

This worries me. Some AI writing styles became mainstream; at first it was the em-dashes, now it’s “A, not B” patterns and excessive acknowledging. There will be more. Was grandparent comment written by an LLM? Or is this a human who copies a style they saw in a blog post, unaware that they’re copying an AI? Or is this a human who spent too much time talking to an AI and now they just talk like this? Or is this an organic human response and we’re all paranoid by now? I don’t know which would be worse.

8bitsout 4mo ago
I'm going to go insane from all of this
elevation 4mo ago
When learning a language, I've heard it's good to find a reference speaker, such as a prolific actor, and mimic them in order to absorb several aspects of what makes them sound authentic as a speaker, such as vocabulary, intonation, diction, pacing. For many in the next generation of language learners, this reference will be Claude.
- disqard 4mo ago
  Insightful, and scary! Imitating an imitation machine... even if no one is trying to intentionally do so, McLuhan's "we become what we behold" is inescapable.
- vbezhenar 4mo ago
  I think that the fact that AI has a very recognizable singular style is a problem. And this problem will be solved, sooner or later. It probably isn't a very important problem, because I feel that it should be relatively easy to solve (but maybe I'm wrong?). But certainly with smarter AI I do believe it'll become more fluent with choosing more diverse idioms and phrasing, rather than repeating one thing over and over, to a point of being a comically similar. So people who learn on AI-generated text, will not learn from just one recurring style.
  - pastage 4mo ago
    > It probably isn't a very important problem The amount of languages are decreasing on the earth, I would also say that dialects and accents are decreasing as well. I think this is a problem.
eddd-ddde 4mo ago
So? That's literally how language works. The importance is not in the writing style, but in the content of the words.
- thfuran 4mo ago
  Those are not separate things.

by thih9 4mo ago

8bitsout 4mo ago

I'm going to go insane from all of this

elevation 4mo ago

When learning a language, I've heard it's good to find a reference speaker, such as a prolific actor, and mimic them in order to absorb several aspects of what makes them sound authentic as a speaker, such as vocabulary, intonation, diction, pacing. For many in the next generation of language learners, this reference will be Claude.

disqard 4mo ago
Insightful, and scary! Imitating an imitation machine... even if no one is trying to intentionally do so, McLuhan's "we become what we behold" is inescapable.
vbezhenar 4mo ago
I think that the fact that AI has a very recognizable singular style is a problem. And this problem will be solved, sooner or later. It probably isn't a very important problem, because I feel that it should be relatively easy to solve (but maybe I'm wrong?). But certainly with smarter AI I do believe it'll become more fluent with choosing more diverse idioms and phrasing, rather than repeating one thing over and over, to a point of being a comically similar. So people who learn on AI-generated text, will not learn from just one recurring style.
- pastage 4mo ago
  > It probably isn't a very important problem The amount of languages are decreasing on the earth, I would also say that dialects and accents are decreasing as well. I think this is a problem.

eddd-ddde 4mo ago

So? That's literally how language works. The importance is not in the writing style, but in the content of the words.

thfuran 4mo ago
Those are not separate things.