I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included:
Fifty minutes. In the cold. Night after night, for seven years.
Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes.
No university, no lab, no funding. He pulled down the dataset, wrote his own code from scratch, and ran every test independently.
one telescope, one mountain, one drawer of plates.
Different telescope. Different continent. Same signature.
Signed and numbered. Just 150 copies. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
[…]the wider corpus this comic was built from. The science holds because the receipts hold.
The Palomar Lights — a story told in data, glass, and light.
It's not technically wrong but the super-short abrupt sentence format of "A. B. C."[0] is weird if you repeat it.
You can get away with it once or twice as a kind of rhetorical flourish but if you keep doing it, it starts to sound like a one-trick pony (or a clanker.)
(IMHO, obvs., I'm not the King of English.)
[0] e.g. "Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes."
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I got the overarching sense of an LLM making drama out of confusing or insignificant things. Some specific LLMisms that irritated me—beyond the creepy soulless AI cartoons—included:
I just read a pre-LLM thriller written almost exactly like this. This is dialed up to eleven, but this is a fairly common writing style.
It switches my brain into skimming mode very quickly, as it reads quite padded.
le mediocrity machine is inevitably a hack
Maybe it's me not being a native speaker, but that seems okish?
It's not technically wrong but the super-short abrupt sentence format of "A. B. C."[0] is weird if you repeat it.
You can get away with it once or twice as a kind of rhetorical flourish but if you keep doing it, it starts to sound like a one-trick pony (or a clanker.)
(IMHO, obvs., I'm not the King of English.)
[0] e.g. "Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes."