“If you ever felt like ChatGPT sounds like a Redditor, it’s because Reddit, Wikipedia, StackExchange, Quora, and the like, are where crawlers are sent to collect those savory well-punctuated text blocks for training data.

It is unfortunate that this choice to prioritise the boring editorial style over schizoid misspelled ramblings was made for the LLM by some engineers and corporate strategists, but it’s what’s needed for mainstream utility, also known as ‘what’s good for business?.”

– Al Hassan Elwan (aka POSTPOSTPOST)

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