Why does it matter if it's easy to recognise? I prefer to know when I'm reading AI writing.
replyI've recently asked claude to be concise in writing documents. It's brilliant for me. You get things like:
reply <cmd> force-off # pull the plug
It's not a bug, it's PR!
replyToo late, people already talking like this too
replyYou're absolutely right!
replySome call it a triple construction.
replyFeature, not bug
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replyHow would you prefer it. Does it not get the point across?
Why does it even matter to you?
reply"Why does it matter to you?" Many Claudisms are grating to many people. Annoying is enough of a justification.
reply> Many Claudisms are grating to many people.
replyWould they be grating to them in the pre-LLM days?
They would be nowhere near as prevalent. All claude-user output is in the same style, which is really annoying.
replyI said several months ago that bots like your coworker, personal assistant, search engine, and customer service are now all the same person. They also write all the blog posts and articles you read and scripts for YouTube videos.
replyFor one, say what it does instead of what it doesn't do
reply"Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs."
replyYes I got that, but afterwards it doesn't explain how until you get all the way down into the diagrams saying that it translates the code one-time. It's once again like no emulators, no virtual machine, no Android, no Linux kernel, no items, Fox only, final destination, whatever
reply"Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs. Uses translation instead of emulation."
replyNo, slop generally doesn't get the point across efficiently.
It's hard to parse, it's grating, and in addition to the strange language you have to apply additional skepticism due to gross inaccuracy being more likely than in human-written text.
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replyIf you run a readability analysis on slop it scores very poorly. LLMs generally continue to be mediocre with the veneer of quality without context to guide them.
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