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apiyesterday at 8:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's more likely that this is from the training data if they're being trained on reams of Internet stuff.


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kristiancyesterday at 9:17 PM

To me it has a writerly New Yorker vibe to it, as in the magazine which reads as “polished” and probably performs well in RL but is totally exhausting to read in long sessions and completely inappropriate for coding where precision is paramount above all. In writing terms its called purple prose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose

jurgenburgenyesterday at 8:24 PM

Isn’t most of the internet slop by now? Self-reinforcing feedback loop.

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