[coolspot]

This comment is a humorous remark that implies that the person who wrote it is so old and fragile that even looking at a skateboard (one of these fuckers) caused them to lose their ability to use hyphens in their writing. Hyphens are punctuation marks that are used to join words or parts of words, such as in "middle-aged" or "liquor-sales person". The comment is exaggerating the effect of aging and skateboarding on the person's health and grammar. It is also a self-deprecating joke that mocks the person's own lack of hyphens in their comment.

Thanks LLM!

[digitalapnea]

This is the first truly novel use case of LLMs that I have seen: "decrypt on-the-fly slang".

[quickthrower2]

Do LLMs purposely waffle on to increase token usage and therefore revenue?

[rnjesus]

honestly, yes, i really suspect this is true. i’ve been using chatgpt since the beta days to help with studying chinese, and i’ve noticed over the months that its replies have gotten increasingly wordy.

the good thing is that you can tell it to be more concise, less bot-like, not so apologetic, etc., and it’ll trim down its responses for as long as it can “remember” (whatever the token limit is on persistence). it’ll be great when llms have, by default, a bit of persistent memory to remember things like this

[Miraste]

>it’ll be great when llms have, by default, a bit of persistent memory to remember things like this

ChatGPT already has this (not sure if it's Plus-only). In your user profile, there's a "Custom Instructions" entry where you can give it persistent prompts.

[rnjesus]

oh hey, i just saw this option after you mentioned it. thanks. it’s really quite helpful

[bredren]

I’ve also noticed wordiness go up but in their subscription product it doesn’t make sense because it just costs them.

[fuzzybear3965]

Wow. I'm not sure it's right. But, that feels/seems right.

[redhale]

I think the opposite. This feels like a hallucination to me. There are no Google results for it, suggesting it's not an actual phrase in English. Maybe a rough translation of a phrase in another language?

[wan23]

The LLM pretty clearly got the gist of the joke.

The original comment started > Every middle aged former skateboarder turned bartender...

In "proper" written English that should have been "middle-aged former-skateboarder-turned-bartender". But at the end of the comment the author claims to have lost their hyphens (i.e. their ability to use the - symbol). Probably because they were having trouble deciding what parts of that should be hyphenated and just made a joke about it instead.