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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. 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.

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