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sievelast Monday at 7:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Did you read the original by Saki (Exhibit 12)?

Ideally, you should read all 14 exhibits. Each has been produced by a different LLM, some local, others frontier models of the time.

E4 = Claude

E6 = ChatGPT

E8 = Mistral

E11 = DeepSeek V3

E12 = Original


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grey-arealast Monday at 9:49 AM

Sorry, I'm not doing all that work for you, I read the first one and was sick of parsing it for meaning by the end.

The work you posted was distinctly unimpressive, particularly as it had a seed text to impersonate and improve. The 'window' is I assume a french door, which I suspect is a mistranslation. If you want to seed LLMs I'd start with texts that are not translated!

Honestly compare it to the human writing examples I showed you and consider the differences in intent and style, which are vast.

I see why you're interested in this, I myself am interested in what these models can do and have tried similar experiments, but you should always be aware when you're asking others to waste their time on word generator output.

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