It's copywriting. They fed these models the internet, which is loaded with it.
This style provides a high entropy basis distribution, so they can from a bigger pool to pick from and phrases to watermark the sentence.
You have much bigger variation of this idiotic phrases and words, which states a simple fact in that sophisticated and twisted manner.
It’s a side effect of post-training for effectiveness and efficiency at technical tasks.
Over time the models learn to pack as much information as possible into their available context window, because that’s one way to increase the effective intelligence.
Humans do this too with industry jargon, dense tech-talk, etc.
We have a limited capacity so packing it densely maximises what we can do with it.
If you’ve ever heard a “non technical” manager complain about the terminology in an IT meeting — this is why.
But who has both the compute power and the motivation to do such a thing?
I guess I'll just continue rewriting the UI one word at a time for the time being.
Nothing works. This style of writing is deeply ingrained into these models.