I mean there's tons of better-writing tools that use AI like Grammarly etc. For actual general-purpose LLMs, I don't think there's much incentive in making it write "better" in the artistic sense of the world... if the idea is to make the model good at tasks in general and communicate via language, that language should sound generic and boring. If it's too artistic or poetic or novel-like, the communication would appear a bit unhinged.

"Update the dependencies in this repo"

"Of course, I will. It will be an honor, and may I say, a beautiful privilege for me to do so. Oh how I wonder if..." vrs "Okay, I'll be updating dependencies..."

▲

quamserena 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wish it would just say "k, updated xyz to 1.2.3 in Cargo.toml" instead of the entire pages it likes to output. I don't want to read all of that!

	▲	altmanaltman 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I used to feel the same but you can just prompt it to reply with only one word when its done. Most people prefer it to summarize because its easier to track so ig thats the natural default

▲

resiros 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, no one is asking for artistic writing, just not some obvious AI slop. The fact that we all can now easily determine that some text has been written / edited by AI is already an issue. No amount of prompting can help.

	▲	altmanaltman 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but thats not what I am saying. I am saying its default writing style is for communicating with the user, not producing content/text hence it has that distinctive style we all recognise. If you want AI writing thats not slop, there are tools that are trying to do that but the default LLM writing style is unlikely to change imo.