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by theshrike79 889 days ago
The "delicate balance between X and Y" is an LLM tic[0]. Especially llama -based language models have a habit of ending any longer piece of text with a phrase like that.

Source: have done a bunch of AI-assisted writing to develop my own skills and the tics and specific turns of phrases really pop out to me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic

1 comments

May well be.

Ironically, the most common place I read the tic of ending a piece of persuasive with a deliberate, unconnected conclusion that doesn't persuade and instead equivocates or states a trivialism ... is in student papers or similarly graded-like-assignments rote work.

Could be that there's a lot of that out there such that it's heavily represented in training data. Could just be a person doing a not-great writing job.