How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

Post by drgo » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:02 AM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #402

ryandrake wrote: post #383

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If the next generation of AI content produced no recognizable LLM patterns, and was indistinguishable from an actual human author, would you still care and try to determine whether the content was AI produced?

Of course. The "content" is how humans communicate with each other, it doesn't just exist for its own sake (except in some degenerate cases). If you know that a human has authored it, you can infer their intent and thought-process from various choices they made across it. There's no such thing as intentional choices when the content is generated though.

Post by pseudohadamard » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:07 AM UTC

PcChip wrote: post #376

jghn wrote: post #373

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unfortunately load bearing is one of those things that became a claudism but has been part of my daily lexicon for decades. There are a lot of things I say regularly as part of my own vocal quirkiness that now I have to self censor.

I've used it since that simpsons episode "it's a load bearing poster..."

Post by pseudohadamard » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:09 AM UTC

renegade-otter wrote: post #435

rpdillon wrote: post #353

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I didn't use Claude for a long time, but my coworkers did, so I got infected through a side channel: I ended up reading their vibed docs, noticed "load-bearing", kind of liked it, and started using it in conversation, until I got feedback that I was "talking like Claude", so now I avoid the phrase entirely. The intersection of language and social norms is interesting.

The one Claudism I will never ever use is "synthesize". I don't even know where that came from - no one talks or writes like that - "I can synthesize that for you".

Post by matthewdgreen » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:18 AM UTC

rpdillon wrote: post #353

doctoboggan wrote: post #309

I do not mind when I am coding with Claude and it uses all the typical claudisms. I am much more bothered when I am reading a blog post, email, or other form of prose and I see those same claudisms. I guess they are not annoying since I know I am talking to an LLM and expect the typical responses. When I am reading prose online that I previously would have expected a human to write, it can be quite jarring to realize…

I didn't use Claude for a long time, but my coworkers did, so I got infected through a side channel: I ended up reading their vibed docs, noticed "load-bearing", kind of liked it, and started using it in conversation, until I got feedback that I was "talking like Claude", so now I avoid the phrase entirely. The intersection of language and social norms is interesting.

Post by jambalaya8 » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

stingraycharles wrote: post #476

jambalaya8 wrote: post #372

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Actually, AI was learning these 'AI-isms' even back in 2017/2018 (probably even earlier). I think a lot of people who just jumped on the imaginary AI bandwagon more recently don't realise the mannerisms AIs are adopting are not really new. At some point the bleed between 'you' or 'you' and AI will just become so transparent it will be obliterated, more likely than not.

What do you mean? AI is being trained on all data available, so obviously it’s being trained on data from 2017/2018 as well. Or do you mean that the patterns that AI is showing today were already present in communication around that time? That seems obvious as well, as AI has a lot of repetitive patterns that come from all kinds of periods, of which “load-bearing” is just one.