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This is just a problem of articulating what you want. Most people can't write for shit, I'm sorry. Because they maybe took one writing class in college. It's a skill in it's own. LLMs write better than anyone I've ever worked with and the reasons are obvious. If it rambles or is too "purple", that's on the person prompting it, because they can't write for shit to begin with.

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Then why is it that ALL content generated by LLMs, no matter who prompted it, is of such low quality?

> LLMs write better than anyone I've ever worked with

If you're talking about prose, this is obviously false. All the LLM prose I see is so mentally fatiguing to read that I usually just give up.

There are no lack of examples of poorly written LLM prose.

Right, because of the person promoting it.

> LLMs write better than anyone I've ever worked with

And yet every time I see AI-written documentation, there's paragraphs worth of throat clearing and space-wasters like the word "genuinely" for things that could have been outlined in a couple of bullet points.

Right, that's on the prompter being ok with that. It does what you tell it to do. I don't understand how you dorks on this site are so obtuse about this shit. Give it examples of what you want, authors, etc. Or don't and just cry. The world is your oyster.

I'd much rather see badly written text that someone invested time into instead of perfectly written and infinitely soulless AI slop

Lol why, this is just silly

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