At 2024-11-10T11:21:43+0000, Richard Lewis wrote: > > The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/ > > LLMs are being improved rapidly over time. > > > > I guess it's due to some potential safety issues so that LLM uses a > > dull corporate tone by default. > > I think it's slightly misdiagnosed here. to me, it comes accross as > "tedious" to read because the tone is more like a university essay > with everything being overly emphatic adjectives and adverbs > everywhere.
This is a better description than mine. I carelessly attributed the impact the generated content had on me as a reader to properties of the prose style, which wasn't quite right. I'm so accustomed to that style being simultaneously purple and lackadaisical that I expressed the boredom it aroused in me through long, miserable experience with corporate communications that do not reward the effort of reading. > (everything is a "flurry of activity" or "gaining traction" or > "bolstering" or "a bid to enhance" ... and everything is a "significant > devlopment".. it's all just too much.) Yes. Such phrases rapidly weary the reader when the factual payoff for what they promise is almost always meager, and thus has a perversely opposite effect from what was apparently intended. The style touts a firm's business doings as matters of high adventure when they better resemble a long session in a sensory deprivation tank. Most comm majors seem to think they're writing for the J. Peterman catalog. As is often the case in matters of style, William Strunk and George Orwell knew whereof they spoke. Regards, Branden
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