> To be clear, I am not particularly pro or anti AI. Here’s what I currently think:
> • [...]
> • AI writing is often bland and boring but better than the average person’s writing.
Yes, that is exactly the right thing to do.
Without style prompts, a model should produce competent output with generic style. Anything that is not "bland and boring" is going to make a lot of people unhappy, and be mismatched to most contexts.
So great success.
On the flip side, it is incredibly easy to add style via directions.
The right way to request a style you like is going to take some iteration, or style samples, because style is subjective and models can produce an infinite variety of styles.
Again, exactly what we want. Great success again.
It takes time to absorb that models are such uniquely broad tools we can't expect them to match preferences without specific requests. In humans, that is done by soaking up context. Models only have the context you give them, but are far more versatile.
> • [...]
> • AI writing is often bland and boring but better than the average person’s writing.
Yes, that is exactly the right thing to do.
Without style prompts, a model should produce competent output with generic style. Anything that is not "bland and boring" is going to make a lot of people unhappy, and be mismatched to most contexts.
So great success.
On the flip side, it is incredibly easy to add style via directions.
The right way to request a style you like is going to take some iteration, or style samples, because style is subjective and models can produce an infinite variety of styles.
Again, exactly what we want. Great success again.
It takes time to absorb that models are such uniquely broad tools we can't expect them to match preferences without specific requests. In humans, that is done by soaking up context. Models only have the context you give them, but are far more versatile.