• Re: Debian Monthly : AI News Report 2024/10

    From Richard Lewis@21:1/5 to Mo Zhou on Sun Nov 10 12:30:01 2024
    Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org> writes:

    The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/
    LLMs are being improved rapidly over time.

    I guess it's due to some potential safety issues so that LLM uses a dull corporate tone by default.

    I think it's slightly misdiagnosed here. to me, it comes accross as
    "tedious" to read because the tone is more like a university essay with everything being overly emphatic adjectives and adverbs everywhere.

    (everything is a "flurry of activity" or "gaining traction" or
    "bolstering" or "a bid to enhance" ... and everything is a "significant devlopment".. it's all just too much.)

    It's perhaps the training data that causes this -- this is how a lot of people-who-dont-write write because schools and universities teach them
    to write essays but not read/edit -- and the aim ends up being to
    convince the reader that they are giving an opinion, which is not what
    you want here.

    So it might help to tell it to be more factual and neutral in
    tone. Maybe you could even try telling it to adopt the style used on the
    debian lists themselves? (lwn.net is also a good reference point)

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