Even LLMs from years ago could accurately mimic the style of any sufficiently famous author.

est an hour ago | parent | next [-]

LLMs from years ago weren't aligned to death like these days. It's hard to get rid of "AI smell" than years ago.

Bolwin an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah and it's degraded significantly since then. Older llms were still mostly language focused and had a lot of latent knowledge about things like writing styles. Now it's crowded out in favor of agenetic work, programming etc.

	▲	gwern 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.
	▲	conception an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I’m surprised no one has distilled a 4o model yet that’s really good at prose. No money from enterprise users I suppose.

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casey2 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

At best it can use some of the same vocabulary. Often not even then.