Comment by sroussey

Oh, it is active, and a pre-release version went out with v5 models.

I understand there are other reasons (overdone RLHF, for example) why claude is wedged into this weird way of writing that takes the joy out of conversing with it, but this is one as well.

The meaning of the words it uses can be oh so close, but the popularity of the words are not, and not in that context -- but the use of these other words changes the context ever so slightly, and then it uses other words where those words would work better.

I had something in code that related to people over time periods, and once it switches to a vacuous word choice, i found it starting talking using all ERP terms. I had to google the whole sentence to understand that, individual words were fine they just didn't make any sense to me.