One thing that really bugs me about #ChatGPT and #LLMs for #copywriting is they’ve been trained on a web full of crap articles written for #SEO purposes by people in #India who write in a forced style of conversational English. (NB: I’m #IndianAmerican.)
Their writing is oddly long with way too many filler phrases and ChatGPT copies this garbage to a T. The second I see any sentence online start with ‘As you know…’ or some other filler garbage I know where it originated.
Granted, how #Indians write English is just a variant of the garbage academic writing style in the US, which uses different and snootier filler phrases with even longer sentences. It’s writing meant to impress someone for a grade or a pat on the back, and it took me a couple of decades to write more concisely & to the point.
I just wish I could figure out how to get an LLM to understand wtf an adverb is because telling one ‘don’t use any adverbs’ or ‘rewrite that without adverbs’ does nothing.
Yesterday I thought about #Hemingway’s concise, adverb-free writing style and mentioned that in a prompt and got a poem in response 🤦🏽♂️
(Sadly I was too in the zone to appreciate the absurdity and lost the creative masterpiece when I edited the prompt.)
