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Its because they are tailoring the answer to you, your grandma, a ten year old, a professional cook, someone who's never cooked before, and everyone else in that range.

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It's an interactive prompt. The model could ask, "how much cooking experience do you have?", provide a short answer using context from that, and then go "do you want more detail?"

I don't think I have ever seen an LLM try to determine what a human's frame of inquiry or related experience / skill level is, though. Might be my new favorite LLM shortcoming.

You can literally just ask it to do that.

you can set the writing stile to "concise" all you want in the settings of all the LLMs and you still get a wall of text.

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