[ameliaquining]

It seems relevant that a lot of these things were fairly notorious clichés even before LLMs, which just intensified the phenomenon. They were what people tended to do who wanted to sound smart and sophisticated but didn't have a developed voice or anything in particular to say. Indeed, I'm fairly sure this is why LLMs sound like this.

[layer8]

A lot of these things were well-known clichés already before LLMs, used by people who wanted to sound sophisticated but weren't articulate or didn't have anything to say. That's why LLMs sound like that.

[riwsky]

Artificial intelligence predates computers.

[justzisguyuknow]

Indeed,

[keybored]

AI is so original that it can’t make cliches out of decently-worn phrases and constructions by itself.

[gus_massa]

It's just following what the prompt says, something like:

fake prompt> To sound smart, use as much literary tricks from LinkedIn Grow Hackers as possible.

If they prompt asked to sound like Strawberry Shortcake, the AI pudding would be full of berry interesting cooking analogies.

[ameliaquining]

The interesting thing is that LLMs sound kind of like LinkedIn Growth Hackers even if you don't explicitly tell them to do that, unless you instead tell them to sound like something else. (And even then, there are still similarities.)

[UqWBcuFx6NV4r]

You don’t know what’s going on in the training process.

[cryzinger]

This is true, although I can still get behind "use fewer cliches" regardless :)