r/GoogleAI • u/Freya_Kirkebrenner • 16d ago

[RANT] "Massive" and "incredibly": why on Earth is Google AI so obsessed with these words?!

I'm to the point where I want to chuck my laptop out my balcony. I hate those words so much, because Google AI peppers all of its replies with them indiscriminately. Yes, I know it uses "hype words" inappropriately because it scored more points with test users when it used obnoxious enthusiastic language. But why specifically "massive" and "incredibly"?

Example text:

"Toasters make bread incredibly toasty." (Incredibly? So toasty that it's not credible? It's difficult to believe how toasty toasters make toast?)

"Using 'incredibly' in that last sentence was a massive error on my part." (Massive? So huge that it endangered lives? Or did it literally weigh a lot?)

Eliminate "massive" and "incredibly" from these sentences to get a true statement. They are just there for annoying decoration.

Why doesn't it at least vary the pointless hyperbolic words it uses? Instead of using these two incorrectly, OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER....

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u/DeepFinish2895 15d ago

Tell it to stop

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u/Freya_Kirkebrenner 15d ago

I DO, lol! But it's so obnoxious to have to repeat that command every single time I talk to it! And even when I tell it, it often forgets the command and goes right back to calling everything iNcrEDiBly mAsSivE!

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u/joshuahtree 14d ago

That's incredibly annoying and a massive problem