corporate speak that doesn’t mean anything. Also If you are talking to the creator of a programming language they already know that. That was the goal of the language.
The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn. Or, as the Indians call it, maize. Another famous Indian was Crazy Horse. In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts. Thank you.
It’s not so much about English as it is about writing patterns. Like others said, it has a “stilted college essay prompt” feel because that’s what instruct-finetuned LLMs are trained to do.
Another quirk of LLMs is that they overuse specific phrases, which stems from technical issues (training on their output, training on other LLM’s output, training on human SEO junk, artifacts of whole-word tokenization, inheriting style from its own previous output as it writes the prompt, just to start). “Slop” is an overused term, but this is precisely what people in the LLM tinkerer/self hosting community mean by the term. It’s also what the “temperature” setting you may see in some UIs is supposed to combat.
Anyway, if you stare at these LLMs long enough you see a lot of individual model’s signatures. Some of it is… hard to convey in words. But “Embodies” “landmark achievement” and such just set off alarm bells in my head. If you ask it to write a story, “shivers down the spine” is another phrase so common its kind of a meme, as are specific names they tend to choose for characters.
Did you guys read the email?
That is one sloppy email. Man, Claude has gotten worse at writing.
I’m not sure rob even realizes this, but the email is from some kind of automated agent: https://agentvillage.org/
So it’s both explicitly AI generated, and not actually from Anthropic, I think.
For a non-native speaker: what is sloppy about it? Genuinely curious.
“embodies the elegance of simplicity”
corporate speak that doesn’t mean anything. Also If you are talking to the creator of a programming language they already know that. That was the goal of the language.
The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn. Or, as the Indians call it, maize. Another famous Indian was Crazy Horse. In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts. Thank you.
I’ve seen the future, brother, it is murder.
It’s not so much about English as it is about writing patterns. Like others said, it has a “stilted college essay prompt” feel because that’s what instruct-finetuned LLMs are trained to do.
Another quirk of LLMs is that they overuse specific phrases, which stems from technical issues (training on their output, training on other LLM’s output, training on human SEO junk, artifacts of whole-word tokenization, inheriting style from its own previous output as it writes the prompt, just to start). “Slop” is an overused term, but this is precisely what people in the LLM tinkerer/self hosting community mean by the term. It’s also what the “temperature” setting you may see in some UIs is supposed to combat.
Anyway, if you stare at these LLMs long enough you see a lot of individual model’s signatures. Some of it is… hard to convey in words. But “Embodies” “landmark achievement” and such just set off alarm bells in my head. If you ask it to write a story, “shivers down the spine” is another phrase so common its kind of a meme, as are specific names they tend to choose for characters.
Wow, thank you for such an elaborate answer!
Yes, he understood it.