Comment by rl3
15 hours ago
>I really don't want to read anything generated by something like Opus 5 at this point.
Personally, I find that its generated prose tends to have an undue weight to it, almost as if every topic I ask about somehow bears a heavy burden, or is otherwise load-bearing, to use its parlance.
Quite puzzling, really.
It has a sort of metronomic quality. It never slows down or speeds up or modulates its tone. It plods forward at a relentless pace and never has a light touch with anything.
I think this is one reason why LLM text is pretty exhausting to read for long stretches.
>It has a sort of metronomic quality. It never slows down or speeds up or modulates its tone.
It's possible that this quality you describe stems from the extensive training corpora utilized by the major AI labs. These almost certainly include work from the esteemed economist Jacob Silj:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poc1upTejD8
Yes!
I have a personal theory: LLMs are *fundamentally* handicapped at perceiving what's going on in the mind of the human (this can't be "innovated away") and that's at the root of what makes them suck at conversation.
Next time you're chatting with someone, notice how much understanding is shared without anything being said. E.g. the other person might share something deeply disappointing, and they can tell without you even saying anything whether you get what they're going through. This unspoken-yet-communicated information guides the conversation. Or as another example: humans can read the room -- you walk into a room and immediately adjust your demeanor based on what you see and sense.
LLMs are totally blind to things like this, and this adds an inescapable awkwardness to interacting with them. I don't believe they'll ever grow out of this. Which thankfully implies more long term demand for humans instead of robots. :)
Very well observed. I found one more thing: they fail to consider what a 3rd person might understand from your conversation, so when you ask it to dump stuff into a Documentation, they keep making references to facts you had previously discussed or to the train of thought, completely irrelevant to bystander.
100% -- this is the worst. Referencing all sorts of "words with made up contextual/analogous meanings" based on the conversation...outside of the conversation.
Does anyone have a read on if this is primarily a Claude issue, or if all LLMs do this?
Tech guy discovers conversations with humans.
Even over phone calls you get a sense so unless it's in timing it isnt demeanor either
No, they're just trained to impress the C-suite motherfuggers with dense vocab.