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Oh crap, if these are the new LLM tells then a lot of people are going to start accusing me of AI writing...

I have a strong tendency of talking about concepts like they're physical objects. A lot of the people I know IRL do too, so it might be a regional thing idk.

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I think these are growth pains. As LLM start to grasp new figures of speech, it sounds weird at overuse at first, until it finds a balance.

In English, "positive example, negative example" is a really useful communication pattern.

LLMs took this and smooshed it into "it's not X, it's Y" or "it's X, not Y".

I reckon this "unusual object verb" thing is similar.. kinda an uncanny valley of written communication.

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