Noah Luttinger (NLW)

He called it AI Sameness Problem...

And it's short, so we'll read it quickly and this will be me reading, not AI.

For better or worse, you guys have sent the message clearly that as good as AI voice technology is, you prefer me reading it and that's fine.

But we'll read Alex's essay and then we'll talk about these five techniques that I have found to work for overcoming the problem of AI's averageness.

Again, his essay is called AI's Sameness Problem and it reads...

OpenAI's video generation app Sora sits atop the App Store charts, but I anticipate it'll fall off soon.

Creating Sora videos is a genuine but momentary thrill.

Back to Alex, he writes.

Coming back to Alex's essay, he continues, to have a shot at long-term relevance, this sameness issue must be broken.

My inbox now has more PR pitches than ever, and they all seem like they were written by the same agency.

Clearly, Alex and I agree that there is this core underlying problem.

The difference, it seems, is that I have spent a lot more time battering these systems to actually get what I want out of them.

So what we're going to do for the rest of the show is look at the set of techniques that I have found actually work to help me get what I want out of these systems and how to make them no longer average.

The first let's call a negative style guide.

A lot of what makes things average is hackneyed approaches that can be overused words, overused analogies, overused turns of phrase.

A lot of what gives us the feeling of AI and LLMs being in patterns is these common elements that come up way more in AI writing or AI output than they do in human output of the same type.

If you follow me on Twitter, you'll have probably seen me screech about the use of the word telemetry.

I literally don't go a day without ChatGPT using the word telemetry at least two or three times in some strategic discussion or another.

And I don't know that I've even once in my entire life heard an actual human being in the real world use the word telemetry.

Not only does that make it distinctly feel AI, it also gives it the feel of someone who's trying to pretend they're smarter than they are by using bigger words than they need to.