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Claude's writing style has me on edge
- chaking8881 4mo agoIronically, the more polished AI writing becomes, the easier it is for me to recognize it. Not because of grammar, but because everything feels just a little too intentional.
- Aniket-N 4mo agoAnd honestly? Thats the part no one is talking about. :|
- randycupertino 4mo ago[flagged]
- notfromhere 4mo agoLet's pause for a moment, that actually sharpens the case rather than complicating it.
- sasaf5 4mo agoI'd like to gently push back because this is a misconception that is worth untangling. It's not that no one is talking about it. It's that there's a genuine silence about the subject.
- strken 4mo agoI feel the opposite. AI writing is like a version of Google Maps where you can see little black and white houses up close, but when you zoom out, all those details fade to white noise.
- RugnirViking 4mo agoits way too good at using the markers of having something to say, the sorts of things a professor might use after a period of lengthy explanation to make you snap back to attention and listen because this; This right here is the really juicy bit: but theres nothing there. Its using it to talk about whatever mundane thing you asked it to, with perfect neutrality and no substance at all. I refer you to one of my favorite hacker news comments, I keep coming back to it and sending it to people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352444
- jerodsanto 4mo agoThanks for sharing that comment, it's excellent. I love the use of "midwife" in the last sentence. Claude would never!
- xg15 4mo agoIt will now...
- bellowsgulch 4mo agoI wonder if all of the fruits of LLMs come from the added training to build on top of a base or foundation LLM but also lead to all of the prose overfitting that we characterize as models having particular writing styles, rather than seeing a wider distribution of styles in response to prompts, in order to produce meaningful work.
- fouc 4mo ago> I hear Claude’s voice in a house, I hear Claude’s voice with a mouse. The new schizophrenia.
- potsandpans 4mo agoEvery time I call it out, I get downvoted here. But it legitimately has markers of a psychological illness.
- cdolan 4mo agoI really like the graph paper background. Is there a way to use this while having the letters fill exactly one block?
- nobodywillobsrv 4mo agoLetting AI write for you is the main purpose though. It should always have been trained on "is this more readable for humans" but as a actual tested thing.
- xg15 4mo ago> Everything I read these days may have been written by Claude, so I’m constantly trying to determine if what I’m reading is or isn’t I think it's even worse: There are also people who did write the original posts themselves, but then used AI to "polish" the style - i.e. reformulate a perfectly legitimate post as slop. So even if you're reading obvious slop, you can't be sure if it's actual slop or a human writer "pretending" to be AI (because they haven't got the memo yet that is style is now a negative signifier, not a positive one)