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LLM Writing Tropes.md
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tropes.md is a comprehensive file that catalogs common AI writing tropes to help AI systems avoid repetitive patterns. Adding this file to an AI's system prompt enhances its writing quality by steering clear of identified tropes.
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- Praise: The identification of common LLM writing tropes provides valuable insights for researchers, enabling better understanding and improvement of AI-generated content.
- Praise: The mention of specific overused words like 'tapestry' and 'camaraderie' highlights the potential for quantifying LLM writing styles, which can enhance model training.
- Concern: LLMs often ignore explicit instructions, suggesting that their pretraining and reinforcement learning weights are too dominant to be effectively overridden by prompts.
- Concern: The overuse of certain writing patterns, like 'It's not X -- it's Y', leads to a perception of AI-generated content as lacking depth and originality, frustrating readers.