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Comment by chungy | Hacker News Reader

Somehow, the bad grammar gives something special by signifying an LLM didn't write it.

Then again, an LLM could probably help clean up the grammar.

This is one of those slippery slope things where Grammarly did "just" Grammar and then slowly got into tone and perception and brand voice suggestions and now seems to more or less just want to shave everything down to be as bland as possible.

I tried using an LLM to help me write some stuff and it simply didn't sound like I'd written it - or, it did but in a kind of otherworldly way.

The only way I can describe it is like when I was playing with LPC10 codecs (the 2400bps codec used in Speak'n'Spells, and other such 80s talking things). It didn't sound like me, it sounded like a Speak'n'Spell with my accent, if that makes sense.

No? Okay, if not, if you want I could probably record another clip to show you.

All you have to do is prompt your AI with a writing sample. I generally give it something I wrote from my blog. It still doesn't write like I do and it seems to take more than that to get rid of the emdashes, but it at least kicks it out of "default LLM" and is generally an improvement.

It's fine. We can't have it both ways. I prefer bad grammar to Claude blandness, so I think the author should just write how they write.

I'm sure we'll start to get 'authentic' bad grammar LLMs that actually mussy up your grammar for that natural feeling.

You can do that now. Just ask it to use bad grammar and introduce spelling mistakes and it does.

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