20 points by Eloissssss 2 hours ago | 11 comments
- This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors
- Even LLMs from years ago could accurately mimic the style of any sufficiently famous author.
- LLMs from years ago weren't aligned to death like these days. It's hard to get rid of "AI smell" than years ago.
- Yeah and it's degraded significantly since then. Older llms were still mostly language focused and had a lot of latent knowledge about things like writing styles. Now it's crowded out in favor of agenetic work, programming etc.
- I’m surprised no one has distilled a 4o model yet that’s really good at prose. No money from enterprise users I suppose.
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- Ask the LLM to describe that author's style. Then start a new chat and tell it what you want it to write, giving it the author's style as a guide but without mentioning the author. While I've never used it for this particular purpose, I've used variations of this technique to get around other blocks quite well.
- Seems reliable and effective
- What about public domain authored works style?
- After it stole literally every authors style in existence…
- Another one of those interventions that'll just put US labs at a disadvantage. The public at large doesn't want to use models gimped so as to protect a bunch of pre-AI special interests who should adapt, not obstruct.
- Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences