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by rndmio 376 days ago
The repetition of adjectives in adjacent sentences is much more of a tell than using the word delve, imo.
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This is a good call-out, and one that might be fixable by setting a repetition penalty in generation — or better in training.
I recall in 1980's, style-analyzing software reporting word counts for words with high frequency in the text but low frequency in general usage - jargon. The suggestion was to re-word, and it was often a relevant clue to re-think by examining why one word was doing so much work. Detecting that sounds like more than repetition, but still feasible probabilistically and relevant at both usage and conceptual levels.
Eh, it’s not a _great_ one, because it’s also common in very bad human writing, particularly fiction.