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> Well, what do you expect? LLMs are trained on blithering, mostly from web sites. So you get blithering out. I realize this isn't entirely serious, but I can't resist pointing out…

Being invited to conference talks around the world is a completely normal part of being an active researcher in almost any academic field, so it doesn't register as pompous to othe…

From your link, > TerraPower must still complete construction, submit an operating license application, and satisfy all applicable safety and regulatory requirements before loading…

Discussion is included in the Dangerous Goods Panel report, agenda item 4.3 (pages 39-41) and Appendix E (beginning page 89). https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/DangerousGood…

Several reasons: 1. The post mainly reiterates a single idea (Capsicum enumerates what the process can do, seccomp provides a configurable filter) in many different ways. There is …

Probably. One common feature of LLM output is grammatical features that indicate information density, like nominalizations, longer words, participial clauses, and so on. Perhaps tr…

Thanks for the links. You may be interested in the other LLM writing style studies I've been collecting: https://www.refsmmat.com/notebooks/llm-style.html

I've heard the Kenya and Nigeria story, but has anyone backed it up with quantitative evidence that the vocabulary LLMs overuse coincides with the vocabulary that is more common in…

I work on research studying LLM writing styles, so I am going to have to steal this. I've seen plenty of lists of LLM style features, but this is the first one I noticed that menti…

No, that doesn't really work so well. A lot of the LLM style hallmarks are still present when you ask them to write in another style, so a good quantitative linguist can find them:…

The first sentence is a reference to prior research work that has found those productivity gains, not a summary of the experiment conducted in this paper.

Most of the tedious formatting requirements do not match what the final typeset article looks like. The requirements are instead theoretically to benefit peer reviewers, e.g., by h…

Outside of disciplines that use LaTeX, the ability of authors to do typesetting is pretty limited. And there are other typesetting requirements that no consumer tool makes particul…

It didn't "survey" devs. It paid them to complete real tasks while they were randomly assigned to use AI or not, and measured the actual time taken to complete the tasks vs. just t…

Sure, if you're learning to write and want lots of examples of a particular style, LLMs can generate that for you. Just don't assume that is a normal writing style, or that it matc…

I don't think the AI companies are systematically working to make their models sound more human. They're working to make them better at specific tasks, but the writing styles are, …

Probably because the article uses the Unicode right single quotation mark instead of apostrophes, due to some automated smart-quote machinery. I'll have to adjust the tagger to han…

In our studies of ChatGPT's grammatical style ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16107 ), it really loves past and present participial phrases (2-5x more usage than humans). I didn't see…

OpenAI is the custodian of the user data, so they are responsible. If you wanted the court (i.e., the plaintiffs) to find specific infringing chatters, first they'd have to get the…

If the output is interpreting sources rather than just regurgitating quotes from them, you need to exert judgment to verify they support its claims. When the LLM output is about so…

Courts have always had the power to compel parties to a current case to preserve evidence. (For example, this was an issue in the Google monopoly case, since Google employees were …

For introductory problems, the kind we use to get students to understand a concept for the first time, the AI would likely (nearly) nail it on the first try. They wouldn't have to …

> Well, if you’re a novice, don’t do that. I agree, and it sounds like you're getting great results, but they're all going to do it. Ask anyone who grades their homework. Heck, it'…

I agree with all of this. But it's already very difficult to do even in a college setting -- to force students to get deliberate practice, without outsourcing their thinking to an …

Sure, you could learn about grammar, plot structure, narrative style, etc. and become a reasonable novel critic. But imagine a novice who wants to learn to do this and has access t…