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Post by iamacyborg » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

jpimbert wrote: post #6

It's difficult to read more than a few sentences, when this itself is clearly a Claude artifact.

Post by throwaway2037 » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

Post by pixl97 » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC

xpct wrote: post #50

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #32

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> asking Claude which code snippet it prefers: the one it generated in a different chat, or one that I refactored [...] It always picks its own ...is not the same as claiming... > LLMs favor LLM-generated passages over human written ones Here, you're using the same LLM to both produce and judge the resulting work. If anything, I would expect an LLM to tend to prefer its own work given that the same training is produc…

It's not intuitive to me for why preference for its own writing would emerge, and during what type of training or tuning. Perhaps something like: learning to identify what source files it has worked on by the code style alone, because tasks may give human code (public repos, etc) and ask to make changes.

Post by mistrial9 » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 3:48 PM UTC

thatjoeoverthr wrote: post #61

xpct wrote: post #18

If I recall correctly, there were some papers which suggested that LLMs favor LLM-generated passages over human written ones. I can consistently reproduce this by asking Claude which code snippet it prefers: the one it generated in a different chat, or one that I refactored for my own needs and find more useful. It always picks its own :) I've also experienced that both Claude and Codex routinely include generated we…

> always picks its own If you hate AI writing enough, this turns AI filters into a kind of humiliation ritual. AI will derank normal business writing for human readers, and uprank inflated, verbose, tic-heavy slop. So you have to put the heavy slop out with your name on it. Really perverse moment.

Post by tencentshill » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

locknitpicker wrote: post #63

SoftTalker wrote: post #54

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And it's all because of ads. The incentives in an ad-funded internet are just always going to lead to this sort of thing. The most important thing is getting the user to load your page, not actually satisfying their query. Let's hope the LLM model continues to be paying for credits, because any that move to ad revenue will become useless for real work.

> And it's all because of ads. Not really. A while ago there was a news piece stating that Israel was behind a series of fake think-tanks with very accessible websites which were created with the express purpose of feeding AI agents with alternative facts aligned with their foreign policy. If anyone has the link at hand, please post it.