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AI-isms go deeper than em-dashes and 'load-bearing' (jesseduffield.com)
13 points by ozozozd 6 days ago
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I often refer to this as word salad and have for the moment written some guardrails as an attempt to keep claude/gpt/whatever from outputting this sort of text. Claude especially likes to ignore the guardrails though. I've tried a few skills as well but it too easily will avoid those as well.

It reminds me of some TV show or Hollywood movie where the nerdy tech person says gibberish and the word "mainframe" a few times, and the main characters have to say "In English please?" I feel like the main character when reading some of these AI-isms.

"An index is not a horse" is not a phrase I'd expected to read today.
i tried to filter out a long list of these but still claude struggles to write like a human
just go with AIsm; second, this is just the start. Not everyone is bothered by it, nor are we going to last long with the onslaught of society slowly subcumbing to the parroting of AIsm to the point that there'll be plenty of false positives decrying LLM content.

Eventually, whether we like it or not, AIsm will just be how people "go forward" the same way corporate speak has taken over board rooms and white color work.