alt Hacker News> Nah I don't have any issue understanding, so the actual question here is why do some people find AI-generated language hard to understand?
As far as I can tell, it's only fluent readers who have trouble.
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I'm a fluent reader. Heck reading has been a primary hobby since I was a little kid. But also I'm from a Caribbean country where English is the official, but not the native language. And I've been studying/exposed to Japanese for quite a few years. Maybe that diversity/stretch makes a difference.
> …it’s only fluent readers who have trouble.
That makes sense, because fluent readers are using more System 1 processing to read - they’re not thinking about it for the most part, they’re just pattern matching instinctively based on text they’ve been exposed to previously (“trained on”). AI writing breaks those patterns so compromises their fluency.
Whereas a second language reader or poor reader is exerting more conscious attention to understand the text, so it doesn’t matter as much if it doesn’t conform to standard patterns.
FWIF, I find I don't have much trouble. I think it's related to how I'm a software developer who also found as an adult learner German easier than French. From the abstract:
process waits for input, a method threw an exception, server accepts the request, Ahem: `SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory` German has longer syntactic dependencies than English because readers (and listeners) often must *under* several intervening clauses of the sentences read before they can *stand* the split-apart word or what the author was saying.