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