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When reached for comment on how this occurred, the journalist in question replied: “This is the perfect question that gets to the heart of this issue. You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one. Let’s examine why that question works so well in this instance…”
> You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one Also the "it's not A, it's B" template
When reached for comment on how this occurred, the journalist in question replied: “This is the perfect question that gets to the heart of this issue. You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one. Let’s examine why that question works so well in this instance…”
That's a sharp comment–let's break down why that is.
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Gemini has been doing this to me for the past few weeks at the end of basically every single response now, and it often seems to result in the subsequent responses getting off track and lower quality as all these extra tangets start polluting the context. Not to mention how distracting it is as it throws off the reply I was already halfway in the middle of composing by the time I read it.
In similar "news" Re: tangents, I've noticed Claude now suddenly starting to give up on problem analyses. After like three rounds of it trying to figure something out that I told it is a requirement , it suggests that we don't need to do that as it's a nice-to-have only anyway. If in auto-accept mode it'll start doing the other thing even. I have to catch it and tell it to not effing give up so easily and to stop giv…
I had to specifically instruct it that the integration tests ALWAYS pass 100% and not to assume anything - and it kinda believed it.
The nuclear option would be to force it to start with running the tests to prove to itself they worked before =)
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I haven’t had that experience at all. My experience is that if you allow people to be lazy they will be, at the expense of society. What has your experience been like?
My experience, AI has shown me that a lot of stuff I do online. Watching videos, reading random articles, is mostly vapid pointless nonsense. AI slop has finally woken me up and I am prioritizing IRL activities with friends and family, or activities more in the real world like miniature painting, piano, etc. It's made me much more selective with what activities I engage in, because getting sucked in to the endless AI…
Personally I still haven’t run into slop in long form video format, but it’s definitely concerning.
As the pioneers in the field say - prompts are as important as output and must be preserved and published along with code/output! Don't throw away your prompts.
However - same prompt would have different output each time is yet another caveat.
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You can use the LLM, but you don't also have the rest of the data they relied on. A LLM can generate everything if it starts from a minimal prompt, but this is a recipe for slop. If you come with materials, discuss them, their implications, express your POV and then generate, the article will reflect your ideas and the data if was fed. I know it is fashionable to put everything a LLM outputs in the slop box, but I do…
> If you come with materials, discuss them, their implications, express your POV and then generate Then the LLM can still make shit up and be absolutely wrong.
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One interesting thing about the LLM era is it really highlights what things in life actually add value.
how so, any examples