Follow up thought: I wonder if Claude is overtrained on academic papers, which often suffer the same kind of "prove how good I am at talking before getting to the point" prose.

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anon7000 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It’s way harder to read because most of Claude’s sentences are hardly communicating anything at all, or are just completely inscrutable. I feel like academic papers are just boring

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TheOtherHobbes 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe just Calvin and Hobbes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/ky81y/verbing_...

	▲	alex_c 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is hilarious - this week Claude’s writing was getting so bad I had this exact comic come to mind. Briefly considered adding “Verbing weirds the English language - stop it!!!” to its instructions.

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bulder 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If it was overtrained on academic papers it'd reiterate the point multiple times for structure. Instead, it's burying the lede seemingly just to pad.