I've asked it before to write in a style similar to Orwell (either directly, or by following his published rules for writing). I do hope that continues to be supported.
I just can't stand to see any more "Why It Matters.", and this trick seems to strip out the worst offenders
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.
No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.
Works unfinished at the time of the author's death?
Abandoned works?
Lost works? Prompt: Aristotle's work on comedy has been lost. Write a short treatise on comedy, using Aristotle's methods as shown in his Corpus and especially his treatises on Rhetoric and Poetics.
Who cares? There probably have been hundreds of such texts by later philosophers and authors. None of these has value as a completion of Aristotle's work. The original's importance is historical, and you can't retrofit history.
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.
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.
I've asked it before to write in a style similar to Orwell (either directly, or by following his published rules for writing). I do hope that continues to be supported.
I just can't stand to see any more "Why It Matters.", and this trick seems to strip out the worst offenders
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.
No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.
> truesight of obscure forum posters
What does this mean?
I’m surprised no one has distilled a 4o model yet that’s really good at prose. No money from enterprise users I suppose.
At best it can use some of the same vocabulary. Often not even then.
Wuddabout:
Works unfinished at the time of the author's death?
Abandoned works?
Lost works? Prompt: Aristotle's work on comedy has been lost. Write a short treatise on comedy, using Aristotle's methods as shown in his Corpus and especially his treatises on Rhetoric and Poetics.
Who cares? There probably have been hundreds of such texts by later philosophers and authors. None of these has value as a completion of Aristotle's work. The original's importance is historical, and you can't retrofit history.
After it stole literally every authors style in existence…
Haven't they been doing this for a long time already? I remember trying to copy Hunter S. Thompson's style many moons ago and getting a refusal.
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.
Yeah similar to how image generators don't draw Mickey Mouse, but ask for a black cartoon mouse with big ears and see what you get!
Seems reliable and effective
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
What about public domain authored works style?