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dylan604 • yesterday at 4:54 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> it becomes noisy and sameish at larger scale or the more you read it.

I absolutely understand where you are coming from, and I agree to a point. If you're of an age where you actually read a printed encyclopedia, the tone and voice of the entire set was sameish as well. The difference is that it didn't sound LLMish like LLM text does. I know that printed encyclopedias would have been vetted by editors, and I feel this is the key difference. Editors not only knew grammar rules, but had that sense of good writing practices that's hard to write down as rules. A piece of text passed through a good editorial review will read human while LLM text reads as LLM text.


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contrast • yesterday at 8:28 PM

What you're describing though is that individual source of content tends to sound like itself. That isn't a problem so much as what we tend to want and expect.

When we say AI sounds same-ish we mean all sources of content can sound the same - fiction and non-fiction, news articles and blog posts, marketing pitches and ai drafted personal messages, all sound kinda the same. That is a different situation, and that's before you get to "and that one sound is LLMish".

zobzu • yesterday at 4:58 PM

what's funny of that the llm learns from Wikipedia and then is used to put data back in Wikipedia. can't imagine that going well lol

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