Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.
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@Jmj Yes. Also I suspect the semantic expressiveness of programming languages is far narrower than that of human languages: they're more precise, but it's much harder (though not impossible!) to write poetry in them. So there's less risk of losing something unique by generating output that tends to occupy the middle of the bell curve.
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Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.
(We can measure semantic ablation through entropy decay. By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses.)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
@cstross "Model collapse", Shumailov, Shumaylov & Papernot (2024), Nature : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
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@Sassinake @cstross
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Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.
(We can measure semantic ablation through entropy decay. By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses.)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
@cstross I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves...
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