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True now.

At the same time, as a nonnative speaker of English, this is literally how we were taught to write eye-catching articles and phrases. :P

A lot of formulaic writing is what we were taught to do, especially with more formal things. (This is more of a sidenote to this example)

So in a hunt for LLMs, we also get hit.



I believe this is likely a consequence of how RLHF is done. I’ve not verified it, but I suspect the frontier model labs are outsourcing it to companies employing primarily non-native English speakers.


Back in the days I've heard it's why delve is so popular; as it's common in Nigerian English.

I learned it from MtG and I do believe it's a very cool word and I hate that I can't use it without people raising their eyebrows.


I agree - “delve” is often a perfectly cromulent word :)




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