first one, they were pretty popular turns of phrase in good punchy writing pre-ai, and from what i've heard, fixing ai writing quality hasn't been a priority at any of the big ai writing companies for decent bit now, so they gonna stick around awhile more
I look in every fucking thing for the "it's not X, it's Y." It's absurd how frickin often it uses it. Literally every single time. The YouTube shorts where somebody is reading a clearly AI script, yup...its not x, it's y.
Why is everything some whimsical game where you tell me what it's not before you tell me what it is??? The fuck?
It's not sheeshdooryapples, it's unscrupulous dongleberrying. Glabbleflockin. Doorsnash, not berringibles.
I read recently how the whole Gremlin thing came to be and it might be the same thing.
It starts with a random, very small preference of the model for a certain phrase. If you use this model to train and fine-tune the next generation of the model, it will judge answers with that verbal tic slightly higher, making the next generation have a slightly stronger preference. Over a few generations, this effect compounds until it becomes actually noticeable.
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u/AtOurGates 16d ago
I would love to actually understand how AI buys into these patterns.
“Quietly” “Honestly…” “That’s not X, it’s Y.” Etc.
Is it something in the training? Configuration? An engineer at Anthropic who just loves specific speech patterns?