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What is arguably worse is hearing these phrases from humans who have been inculcated with the notion that their usage is idiomatic and appropriate. And we thought "robust", "circle back", and "to leverage" were grating...
Yeah I sometimes see people on here getting defensive when you call out AI slop, saying maybe it's just a human who writes like Claude, and I really don't care- slop is slop.
Is this a belt-and-suspenders solution?
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Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.
I’ve heard (and used) the term “API surface” a lot…
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Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.
Mine is obsessed with "planes". Data plane, control plane, management plane. Everything is a plane :)
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Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.
In my brief and abortive foray into education, I discovered that they friggin' love to use "surface" as a verb. As in: This activity surfaces an understanding of the turboencabulation principle for learners. Or somesuch. It's been a while, happily. Unless you're a submarine, "surface" is not a verb.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surface#dictionar...
> : to come into public view : show up
> letters that have recently surfaced
It's not that it uses certain phrases, it's that it settles on predictable speech patterns and uses them incessantly. What's funny is that humans do this too, but we don't find it irritating; we just call it a speaking style. But when a machine does it, it drives us crazy. Very interesting psychological phenomenon there.
> What's funny is that humans do this too, but we don't find it irritating I make fun of people all the time for shoehorning their favorite phrase into every context where it doesn't apply.
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> It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Generative AI uses first-person pronouns (e.g. "I", "me", "my", "myself") Could you please provide an example of what you mean?
This is a method of manipulating the LLM, it doesn't have to be true. I've given LLMs religion before to manipulate their behavior, that doesn't mean I believed in the great spaghetti goddess.
The big problem I have is when they apologize and say something like "that tidbit changes my analysis substantially". I wish they'd more often prompt for questions or use language in their initial responses that suggest lower than declarative confidence given the information you supplied.