My theory is that the LLM knows what is persuasive and brute forces it. So we see a ton of repetition (which ironically, is a costly transformer signal, as if writing with ink and pen), and we see antithesis. Regarding other persuasive methods (alliteration etc.), more research is needed. Seems like it is more and more fine tuned to what people ‘like’, possibly by a feedback loop.
What does it mean? It means that we writers are under-using persuasive brute-force methods. We write to sound natural and not specifically persuasive, though in general we do want to be persuasive; this comes from a very human instinct of seeming ‘as if’ “not trying”; LLM don’t have that self-conscious game. It finds the methods, and then uses them ad-nauseum because it works. Why do we have this self-conscious such that we become hyper aware of AI persuasive use?
It works for getting the typical LMArena user to click the like button, but it’s not clear that it works for persuasion or anything else. Personally I find the style very offputting and usually stop reading when I notice it.
My theory is that the LLM knows what is persuasive and brute forces it. So we see a ton of repetition (which ironically, is a costly transformer signal, as if writing with ink and pen), and we see antithesis. Regarding other persuasive methods (alliteration etc.), more research is needed. Seems like it is more and more fine tuned to what people ‘like’, possibly by a feedback loop.
What does it mean? It means that we writers are under-using persuasive brute-force methods. We write to sound natural and not specifically persuasive, though in general we do want to be persuasive; this comes from a very human instinct of seeming ‘as if’ “not trying”; LLM don’t have that self-conscious game. It finds the methods, and then uses them ad-nauseum because it works. Why do we have this self-conscious such that we become hyper aware of AI persuasive use?
It works for getting the typical LMArena user to click the like button, but it’s not clear that it works for persuasion or anything else. Personally I find the style very offputting and usually stop reading when I notice it.