> sign-balanced to a hundredth of a point with no constraint asking for it."

This isn't their model, this is (probably?) ChatGPT doing a brag / promo deck authorial voice. It routinely uses half a dozen sentence constructions that are relatively uncommon in normal or technical speech. Eccentric. Persuasive. Trying too hard. Restating its point in a promotional way that doesn't sound natural, leading into a sentence where it hyperbolically sells you on having done the impossible.

Normal persuasive speech uses these constructions, especially public speaking doing a VC pitch or an Ancient Aliens, but it would be fucking strange if a person started chaining them in normal conversation and using little else, trying to insinuate competence.

You start to recognize it pretty quickly on Youtube.

Also, wouldn't normalisation tend to produce a mean of zero in the weights, anyhow?