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ChatGPT's style is like an academic writer's. It's tone and word choice are same-ish across various subjects, but it's coherent and easy to understand. In retro
by molave 2y ago
ChatGPT's style is like an academic writer's. It's tone and word choice are same-ish across various subjects, but it's coherent and easy to understand. In retrospect, I've seen papers that would pass as GPT-created if they're written after 2022.
- wildrhythms 2y agoAre we reading the same academic papers? When I read ChatGPT output it reads like pseudo-educational blogspam.
- RIMR 2y agoThat's because for the past couple of years models like ChatGPT's have been used to generate psueudo-educational blogspam, and you associate that with writing style with it now. But generally, ChatGPT writes in a very literal direct style. When you write about science, it sounds like a scientific paper. When you write about other subjects, it sounds like a high school book report. When you write creatively, it sounds corny and contrived. You can also adjust the writing style with example or proper descriptions of the writing style. As a basic example, asking it to "dudify" everything it says will make it sound cooler than a polar bear in ray-bans, man...
- nullc 2y agoHardly. It's been RLHFed into sounding like blogspam from foreign content farms, because they used the same people as raters. The non-finetuned models have a much better 'house style' across a wide range of prompting approaches.