Who's a Better Writer: A.I. Or Humans? NYTimes Quiz

The only snippet with a statistically significant majority preference went to the AI. Shocking to me as AI writing always seems palpably inferior.

	▲	numeri 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AI's learned their style through RLHF, with semi-focused, partially motivated humans giving feedback on short(ish)-form content. For the most part, Modelese is the revealed preference of the average, not-heavily-invested human. This doesn't fully explain the Claudish coming from Opus 5 and Fable (this seems like it may be due to excessive RLVR or RLAI), but yeah. It's got a lot of cheap writing tricks that make people think it's smart and helpful.

Kim_Bruning 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One crazy part of this is how Opus 4.5 is pretty old by now, for an LLM!

codevark 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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