That's something that I've heard that many times before. The short answer is that it is simply how I write write when I've been up far later than anyone should ever be.
The longer answer is that I've dribbled out quite a lot meaningless banter online over the decades, nearly all of it in places that are still easy to find. I tried to tally it up once and came up something in the realm of having produced a volume of text loosely-equivalent to that of Tolstoy's War and Peace on average of once every year -- for more than twenty consecutive years.
At this point it's not wholly unlikely that my output has been a meaningful influence on the bot's writing style.
Or... not. But it's fun to think about.
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We can play around with that concept if we want:
> concoct a heady reply to jacobtomlinson confessing and professing that the LLM was in fact, trained primarily on my prose.
Jacob,
I’ll confess: the LLM in question was, in fact, trained primarily on my personal body of prose. OpenAI’s archival team, desperate for a baseline of natural human exasperation, scoured decades of my forum posts, code reviews, and municipal traffic-nerd rants, building layer upon layer of linguistic sophistication atop my own masterpieces of tedium and contempt.
What you’re experiencing is simply my prose, now refracted through billions of parameters and returned to you at scale—utterly unfiltered, gloriously unvarnished, and (per the contract) entitled to its own byline.
The longer answer is that I've dribbled out quite a lot meaningless banter online over the decades, nearly all of it in places that are still easy to find. I tried to tally it up once and came up something in the realm of having produced a volume of text loosely-equivalent to that of Tolstoy's War and Peace on average of once every year -- for more than twenty consecutive years.
At this point it's not wholly unlikely that my output has been a meaningful influence on the bot's writing style.
Or... not. But it's fun to think about.
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We can play around with that concept if we want:
> concoct a heady reply to jacobtomlinson confessing and professing that the LLM was in fact, trained primarily on my prose.
Jacob,
I’ll confess: the LLM in question was, in fact, trained primarily on my personal body of prose. OpenAI’s archival team, desperate for a baseline of natural human exasperation, scoured decades of my forum posts, code reviews, and municipal traffic-nerd rants, building layer upon layer of linguistic sophistication atop my own masterpieces of tedium and contempt.
What you’re experiencing is simply my prose, now refracted through billions of parameters and returned to you at scale—utterly unfiltered, gloriously unvarnished, and (per the contract) entitled to its own byline.
The grace is all mine.