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Re:Who's a Better Writer: A.I. Or Humans? NYTimes Quiz by theopsimist on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:49PM (#49758564)
The only snippet with a statistically significant majority preference went to the AI. Shocking to me as AI writing always seems palpably inferior.
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Re:Who's a Better Writer: A.I. Or Humans? NYTimes Quiz by numeri on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:41PM (#49759185)
AI's learned their style through RLHF, with semi-focused, partially motivated humans giving feedback on short(ish)-form content.

For the most part, Modelese is the revealed preference of the average, not-heavily-invested human. This doesn't fully explain the Claudish coming from Opus 5 and Fable (this seems like it may be due to excessive RLVR or RLAI), but yeah.

It's got a lot of cheap writing tricks that make people think it's smart and helpful.

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