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I'm Tired of the AI Tone

45 points · 56 comments · sagivo

  1. ChrisMarshallNY · · focus · HN ↗
    > Nobody talks like this in real life.

    Marketing folks talked like that, for almost my entire career (it was basically a meme), which wound up, as AI was coming into its own.

    1. mettamage · · focus · HN ↗
      You’re absolu —— okay I will see myself out now.

      I recently found a programming task it really sucks at: trying to make a texture from normal house pictures and apply that to a 3D house model.

    2. TheOtherHobbes · · focus · HN ↗
      The default style is literally marketing droid - a mix of blather, grammatical filler, folksy corporate pretension, and SV dev speak. ('And here's why that matters.' Things 'landing' through 'gates', abstractions having a 'shape', and so on.)

      You can wrangle it into something more interesting with shaping and filtering passes, and you can also ask for styles of dead people. (It gets annoyed if you ask for the living.)

      That can take you surprisingly far. But most people accept the first thing they get, which is why you see the same style everywhere.

    3. cyanydeez · · focus · HN ↗
      I've noticed people are now talking like their chat bots, which is "natural".

      It's now just how some people talk.

    4. dofm · · focus · HN ↗
      Also a subset of clichéd US tech writers.

      It actually feels wrong to mention them by name now (because they are actual humans) but the "They're wrong. Here's why." school of writing was strong in the early 2000s and hasn't really gone away.

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