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I have had a hunch for a while now that (in addition to these tools), Anthropic has actually leaned in to Claude's distinctive manner of writing since it makes

by aabhay 2mo ago

I have had a hunch for a while now that (in addition to these tools), Anthropic has actually leaned in to Claude's distinctive manner of writing since it makes the text more obviously AI generated and thus less susceptible to misuse. That's not necessarily the same thing as a markov-style fingerprint but it could be a correlated factor.

pjm331 2mo ago
I had a similar thought but I assumed they leaned in because it improved performance on coding or something like that
- kingstnap 2mo ago
  It could also partly be a byproduct of examples of claude writing being in the dataset, which of course anthropic has lots and lots of and they do train on.
  - r_lee 2mo ago
    no way. there's just no good excuse for why "load-bearing" and "worth flagging" are everywhere now, I've pretty much never seen that in the wild before
- LoganDark 2mo ago
  I suspect it's because of alignment concerns. The more deeply they can integrate their principles, the harder it'll be to misuse. Or at least that's the idea.
  - andai 2mo ago
    From what I heard several AI companies have intentionally been making the personality more cringe so people stop making it their girlfriend.
noman-land 2mo ago
It's pretty trivial to command it to not speak that way. That's one of the first things you should write into the prompt. What style you want it to write in. Make it use a very concise and dry academic style with no overt LLMisms, melodramatic or flowery language, or metacommentary.
- breezybottom 2mo ago
  People have been posting some variant of this comment for three years, and it's no more true today. Ever notice that the "prompt engineer" career hasn't materialized?
  - noman-land 2mo ago
    Regular engineers still exist.
  - someguynamedq 2mo ago
    Prompt engineer is a requirement within every serious job now, not a job in itself
    - breezybottom 2mo ago
      I've never known any firefighters to prompt engineer a blaze, but perhaps you don't consider that a "serious" job.
      - andai 2mo ago
        Hey ChatGPT, what side should I make the incision on?

by aabhay 2mo ago

pjm331 2mo ago

I had a similar thought but I assumed they leaned in because it improved performance on coding or something like that

kingstnap 2mo ago
It could also partly be a byproduct of examples of claude writing being in the dataset, which of course anthropic has lots and lots of and they do train on.
- r_lee 2mo ago
  no way. there's just no good excuse for why "load-bearing" and "worth flagging" are everywhere now, I've pretty much never seen that in the wild before
LoganDark 2mo ago
I suspect it's because of alignment concerns. The more deeply they can integrate their principles, the harder it'll be to misuse. Or at least that's the idea.
- andai 2mo ago
  From what I heard several AI companies have intentionally been making the personality more cringe so people stop making it their girlfriend.

noman-land 2mo ago

It's pretty trivial to command it to not speak that way. That's one of the first things you should write into the prompt. What style you want it to write in. Make it use a very concise and dry academic style with no overt LLMisms, melodramatic or flowery language, or metacommentary.

breezybottom 2mo ago
People have been posting some variant of this comment for three years, and it's no more true today. Ever notice that the "prompt engineer" career hasn't materialized?
- noman-land 2mo ago
  Regular engineers still exist.
- someguynamedq 2mo ago
  Prompt engineer is a requirement within every serious job now, not a job in itself
  - breezybottom 2mo ago
    I've never known any firefighters to prompt engineer a blaze, but perhaps you don't consider that a "serious" job.
    - andai 2mo ago
      Hey ChatGPT, what side should I make the incision on?