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ameliustoday at 4:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

I find that the text that AI produces is sometimes unintelligible without putting _real_ effort into reading it. It's like the AI is becoming so intelligent that it spreads the information around through different sentences in a different way than humans do. I guess if you are a transformer with thousands of tokens of lookahead, why wouldn't you ...

Anyway, I wish the LLMs were trained with a human-text-detector in their training loop. And they can still use a different LLM to produce code and mathematics. However, using the same LLM for both tasks, and we're going to have a hard time understanding what is happening.


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wren6991today at 5:05 PM

I don't buy the "too intelligent to communicate" thing. Feynman was an exceptional communicator. So was Einstein. LLMs are just getting worse at writing, as we continue to aggressively RL them for coding.

paimapitoday at 5:24 PM

that means it's a bad writer. a good writer knows who their reader is and curates their style and complexity to fit. Claude writes like someone who doesn't give a single shit about whether or not you've memorized an initialism it made for some process 10 hours ago. it's the same issue that people have been having with the impenetrability of needless and performative jargon

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fnord77today at 4:57 PM

> I find that the text that AI produces is sometimes unintelligible without putting _real_ effort into reading it

I know exactly what you mean and it's fatiguing if you used the tool or whatever for more than a few hours