[tasty_freeze]

Bible Scholar and youtube guy Dan McClellan had an amazing "high entropy" phrase that slayed me a few days ago.

https://youtu.be/605MhQdS7NE?si=IKMNuSU1c1uaVCDB&t=730

He ended a critical commentary by suggesting that the author he was responding to should think more critically about the topic rather than repeating falsehoods because "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism."

Yeah, AI could not come up with that phrase.

[raincole]

> they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism

Sounds like word salad. Of course if you write like GPT-2 it would not sound like current models.

[tasty_freeze]

Not at all -- it was a funny and more polite way to say, "Don't just repeat things because they give your dogmatism a boner."

[lurquer]

> "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism."

Eh... I don't know. To me, that sounds very AI-ish.

Claude is very good -- at times -- coming up with flowery metaphoric language... if you tell it to. That one is so over-the-top that I'd edit it out.

Put something like this in your prompt and have it revise something:

"Make this read like Jim Thompson crossed with Thomas Harris, filtered through a paperback rack at a truck stop circa 1967. Make it gritty, efficient, and darkly comedic. Don't shy away from suggesting more elegant words or syntax. (For instance, Robert Howard -- Conan -- and H.P. Lovecraft were definitely pulp, but they had a sophisticated vocabulary.) I really want some purple prose and overwrought metaphors."

Occasionally you'll get some gems. Claude is much better than ChatGPT at this kinda stuff. The BEST ones are the ever-growing NSFW models populating huggingface.

In short, do the posts on OpenClawForum all sound alike? Of course.

Just like all the webpages circa 2000 looked alike. The uniformity wasn't because of HTML... rather it was because few people were using HTML to its full potential.

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A sloppy mixed metaphor?

[card_zero]

I'm learning to like 'em more, along with every other human idiosyncracy. Besides, it makes a kind of sense, the idea of some resonance occuring in one's gusset. Timber timbre. Flangent thrumming.

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Tuning fork in loins just makes me think of that chess cheating scandal with a vibrating butt plug.

[ses1984]

It just makes me think of that time I saw someone recovering from eye surgery and I had a visceral reaction.

[ptrl600]

Just like in Asimov's "Monkey's Finger".

[tasty_freeze]

I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck" due to its unorthodox phrasing.

If you like your prose to be anodyne, then maybe you like what AI produces.