Comment by gwern
23 days ago
They sometimes do reduce various verbal tics. Have you seen many 'delves' of late? I haven't. It's now all 'quiet' everything and 'auditing' this or 'gating' that. Who knows how they decide what is a problem or where in the process these get dampened down, though. It may be the post-training operating on its own as people get tired of 'delve' and that stops being a useful trick.
I was already annoyed at the amount of headlines shoehorning the word "quietly" into a story to imply some kind of malicious secrecy (and therefore drive clicks), but it seems to have gotten way more common when people use AI to write titles.