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rtkwe • today at 1:56 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It's common in AI writing because it's common in human writing. Juxtaposition is a useful rhetorical flourish.


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the_sleaze_ • today at 3:18 PM

Only sort of true.

Consider the OpenAI case of "goblins". The models overfit to a specific type of output. Goblins was a specific case of this type and needed to be corrected.

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

> We unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with creatures. From there, the goblins spread.

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axus • today at 2:02 PM

Fashions change; ideas that look AI-generated are out of fashion right now.

I've never really cared about fashion.

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add-sub-mul-div • today at 2:03 PM

If it was used as sparingly, appropriately, and skillfully in AI writing as in human writing then AI writing wouldn't stand out as so mediocre and cringe.

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