alt Hacker NewsThird line in to the article: "But there’s one result in the benchmarks I keep coming back to."
I hear this sort of thing all the time now on YouTube from media/news personalities:
“And that’s the part nobody seems to be talking about.”
"And here's what keeps me up at night."
“This is where the story gets complicated.”
“Here’s the piece that doesn’t quite fit.”
“And this is where the usual explanation starts to break down.”
“Here’s what I can’t stop thinking about.”
“The part that should worry us is not the obvious one.”
“And that’s where the real problem begins.”
“But the more interesting question is the one no one is asking.”
“And this is where things stop being simple.”
It doesn't really worry me but I think its interesting that LLM speak sounds so distinctive, and how willing these media personalities are to be so obvious in reading out on TV what the LLM spat out.
I've never studied what LLMs say in depth is it is interesting that my brain recognises the speech pattern so easily.
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Isn't this the format of "hook-driven media" a constant stream of "second-act pivots" - where some new twist is added to a story to re-engage the reader and keep them reading.
BuzzFeed and Upworthy etc pioneered this for web 'news stories', then it got used in linkedin, twitter, and everywhere where views are more important than the content.
The language of drama and import without meaningful substance. Words statistically likely to be used in a segue, regardless of the preceding or subsequent point. Particularly effective when it seems like you’re getting let in on a secret. Really fatiguing to read
A writing teacher once excoriated me for saying that something was important. “Don’t tell me it’s important, show me, and let me decide, and if you do your job I’ll agree”
I don’t know how a completion can tell when it needs to do this. Mostly so far it doesn’t seem capable
Ugh, you're making me remember the last time I listened to NPR. It's so bad.
I notice this very often in LinkedIn posts, and it's annoying, but I had not realized it was LLM-speak? Isn't it possible that people write like this naturally?
Nate B Jones videos ... YouTube channel "AI News and Strategy Daily" channel uses all of these. Every video.
I listened to a lot of NPR podcasts before LLM were around, and most of them are full of these kinds of filler phrases.
Apparently John Oliver was an LLM before they were even invented.
I think this kind of language predates widespread LLM use, and has been picked up from that kind of writing. It's a "and here's where it gets interesting" pattern that people like Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics have used, even if the same thing could be said in a way that makes it sound much less intriguing.