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by jerlam
78 days ago
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School-type long essays only seem to exist in academia. I took a "business communication" class in college and we didn't write essays. My life experience since then has supported the "no essays" conclusion. A long comment online now means either two things: it's written by a crank who has strong opinions, usually only tangentially related; or someone who has deep knowledge about the subject and has a lot of detail to provide. It's usually the former. |
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"School-type long essays only seem to exist in academia."
Does an AI know what an essay is? Would it consider any long, descriptive post an essay? Especially if pretraining data has many people describing long posts as essays or "essay-like?" Or only actual essays? And what is an actual essay again?
I think AI's might have different interpretations due to the above questions. They might also conflate essays with longer, detailed, or argumentative posts. We'd have to put a bunch of posts into a bunch of AI's to ask how they classify them.