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"The smoking gun" is right there in the text ;) (but also things like "Same million floats. Same threshold. Same function."). Don't know if other models have that same specific style, but it looks very 'claude-y'.

I wouldn't be surprised though if (especially) non-native speakers unconsciously start adopting the Claude writing style when they stare all day long at Claude generated text at work.

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Not sure if it was added later, but there's an even more obvious sign: the top of the blog post literally says that an LLM was used to write it.

I would assume non-native speakers talk to Claude in their own language. Now I'm curious if Claude's weird quirks of speech are unique in each language or if they carry over!

This isn't a necessarily true assumption. I my social circles of non native English speakers, most of us use English to talk with models.

I switch languages randomly.

What do Claude's tics look like in your other language? Do they carry over or does each language get its own weird rhetorical flourishes?

Hard to say for me... I use it for programming, but want it to not talk too much. So I've not many experiences with letting it write long texts...

I'm German but still do all my computing in English (partly out of habbit, but also because Germanized technical text is usually painful to work with because it's full of anglizisms (is that actually an English word?)).

One nice thing about English is you can just make up words with plausible etymological roots in Latin/French or Old English and often people will know what you mean. In this case though it would probably be spelled "Anglicism".

German language: hold my beer ;)

Hey, this beer glass is cold, lemme get my Handschuh.

> Don't know if other models have that same specific style

An awful lot of the open-weight models also talk in the Claude-y style. Not sure if an artefact of distilling anthropic models, or just a preponderance of slop in the training set...

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