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Comment by teraflop

4 hours ago

I don't know precisely what to call it, but there is something about AI's word choice and phrasing that really stands out to me.

It's like it chooses "simple" words, but uses them in unclear or fuzzy or slightly abnormal ways that make the overall meaning more difficult to parse. On its own, each instance is defensible, but the aggregate result when it happens many times over is very tiring to read. It reminds me of XKCD's "Up Goer Five": https://xkcd.com/1133/

Like this:

> One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.

It reads as though it started with a straightforward idea, and then was forced to express it with words of only one syllable.