Comment by twoodfin

I don’t think that’s a solution.

The problem isn’t the surface tics—em dashes, short exclamatory sentences, lists of three, “Not X: Y!”.

Those are symptoms of the deep, statistically-built tissue of LLM “understanding” of “how to write a technical blog post”.

If you randomize the surface choices you’re effectively running into the same problem Data did on Star Trek: The Next Generation when he tried to get the computer to give him a novel Sherlock Holmes mystery on the holodeck. The computer created a nonsense mishmash of characters, scenes, and plot points from stories in its data bank.

Good writing uses a common box of metaphorical & rhetorical tools in novel ways to communicate novel ideas. By design, LLMs are trying to avoid true (unpredictable) novelty! Thus they’ll inevitably use these tools to do the reverse of what an author should be attempting.