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cornholioyesterday at 7:01 AM1 replyview on HN

Great passion for the subject, definitely doesn't get discouraged by their less than perfect command of English and didn't use an LLM to butcher the text's authentic character.

I find that in my own writing I no longer strive for perfect grammar and polish since nowadays it actually cheapens the end result, everybody has perfect grammar today.


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sowbugyesterday at 3:49 PM

Waaay off topic, but does anyone know why LLMs don't have poor grammar if they were trained on the average/poor grammar of the internet? Why don't they mix up then/than or it's/its, or use hypercorrections like "from you and I"?

(Update: of course I had to ask my friendly neighborhood LLM, and the answer is the correct usages still dominate incorrect ones, so statistics favor correctness. They down-weight low quality sources (comments like mine) and up-weight high quality ones (published books, reputable news sites). Then human reinforcement learning adds further polish.)

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