Claude's writing style has me on edge

cdolan•11 minutes ago

I really like the graph paper background. Is there a way to use this while having the letters fill exactly one block?

RugnirViking•about 1 hour ago

its way too good at using the markers of having something to say, the sorts of things a professor might use after a period of lengthy explanation to make you snap back to attention and listen because this; This right here is the really juicy bit: but theres nothing there. Its using it to talk about whatever mundane thing you asked it to, with perfect neutrality and no substance at all.

I refer you to one of my favorite hacker news comments, I keep coming back to it and sending it to people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352444

jerodsanto•about 1 hour ago

Thanks for sharing that comment, it's excellent. I love the use of "midwife" in the last sentence. Claude would never!

fouc•20 minutes ago

> I hear Claude’s voice in a house, I hear Claude’s voice with a mouse.

The new schizophrenia.

chaking8881•about 3 hours ago

Ironically, the more polished AI writing becomes, the easier it is for me to recognize it.

Not because of grammar, but because everything feels just a little too intentional.

strken•about 1 hour ago

I feel the opposite. AI writing is like a version of Google Maps where you can see little black and white houses up close, but when you zoom out, all those details fade to white noise.

Aniket-N•about 2 hours ago

And honestly? Thats the part no one is talking about.

sasaf5•about 1 hour ago

I'd like to gently push back because this is a misconception that is worth untangling. It's not that no one is talking about it. It's that there's a genuine silence about the subject.

notfromhere•about 2 hours ago

Let's pause for a moment, that actually sharpens the case rather than complicating it.

bellowsgulch•30 minutes ago

I wonder if all of the fruits of LLMs come from the added training to build on top of a base or foundation LLM but also lead to all of the prose overfitting that we characterize as models having particular writing styles, rather than seeing a wider distribution of styles in response to prompts, in order to produce meaningful work.

Claude's writing style has me on edge

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