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Is it just me or LLM slop lately has developed this one weird quirk? I mean they always have some, right, but I don't want to be like those people who think anyone using em-dashes or Nigerian English vocabulary must be a stochastic generator.
Still I keep seeing this one writing quirk and it keeps nagging at me.
I'm talking about odd use of paragraphs. Like, I'm also known to introduce a gratuitous paragraph break here and there for forced emphasis.
But not like this. It's like paragraphs don't even make sense anymore.
Couple that with the short sentences. All ending in a period. It's annoying. It's giving reply guy. It's giving mansplaining.
I guess hacky tools also mirror the hand of their creators.
Short punchy writing? GO SHORTER.
I hope investors hop in the bandwagon and start "shorting" the whole thing soon (finger guns)
Didn't know eyeballs could get cancer from reading but here we are.
My pet theory is that their reading comprehension has degraded, so this is all they can handle now.
As they've had to rely more on social media, chat histories, and other very short-form sources for additional training data (to say nothing of how much easier to generate, label, and filter the short-form stuff is), it would make sense that similar patterns (let's go with "conversational" because I'm feeling overly charitable tonight) would become more prominent in the generated text. I mean, how many comment or text message chains, if you took out the line breaks, would read less as theatrical scripts and more as mutually-interrupting manifestos.