Jasmine Sun

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827 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Hard Fork · ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

It can't do any of the things that modern LLMs can do that I'm very grateful for.

But like from pure writing style perspective, they're very good.

So GB3 in particular, like they – there's –

I found this, like, set of samples that some guy did where it was like, oh, write in the style of Paul Graham, write in the style of Richard Dawkins, whatever.

And it could style match much better than modern LLMs can.

And particularly because so much of sort of literary writing comes from voice and style, that was one of the things I was really interested in.

It's like, what did we lose that the LLMs can no longer emulate Paul Graham's style or whoever's style?

Because I would put in the same exact prompt that this guy gave GPT-3 and

put it into ChatGPT 5.4 thinking or whatever, and it would be god-awful.

And I was like, that's really weird.

Yeah, I mean, I think the answer is post-training, basically.

So they started adding a post-training layer, which is basically saying we have these crazy, unpredictable, nutjob, concussed models, and they need to learn how to behave because a model that can't behave is a very bad corporate assistant.

And so the AI researchers give them example dialogues and scripts to learn from.

They give them words that they can and can't say.

They do RLHF, which is a process by which human graders will rate which response is the most helpful sounding or something like this.

And so now these post-trained models have been trapped in a way or trained or guided towards a very particular character or persona that is a very helpful assistant but might be very bad at

writing in creative and surprising ways.

Yeah.

I mean, this is super interesting because like these job listings you'll see on like places like Mercor or XAI, Elon's company will list them directly.

It'll be like creative writing expert, $45 an hour, must be a New York Times bestseller and have like a starred Kirkus review or something like this.

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