article published posthumously

Every time you delve into something that is clearly AI drivel — slopGPT if you will, full of em dashes and SAT words — and you wonder how on earth LLMs learned to talk this way, remember that an early, critical set of training data for “good” writing was the ~100yr digital archive of NYT articles.

no monday quite like the tuesday after a holiday weekend that you took an extra day off…gonna go hang in the +dB range for a while