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moomintoday at 3:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is. And the reason for that is* surprising: the base knowledge corpus is clickbait internet articles.

*not at all


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twoodfintoday at 4:06 PM

I suspect it’s more like Claude etc. optimizing for a tone that gets the green checkmark from RLHF reviewers, probably over and over in many contexts where style is otherwise an incidental concern.

philipallstartoday at 4:03 PM

It is more surprising than that: it's because the humans in the loop like it.

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