Noah Luttinger (NLW)

And to continue this example, if I had just shared a different deck that I had made that had numbers up front, it could have easily interpreted that as saying, oh, you always have to have the numbers up front.

But that's not at all the point that I was trying to say.

What I would say about decks, as someone who has both created and consumed an infinite number of them,

is not that you want necessarily the numbers up front or any one particular number up front.

It's that whatever is the most special thing about what you're trying to tell the story of needs to be as close to the front as humanly possible so as to avoid losing people's attention before they get to that special thing.

That's the type of instruction that you can give an LLM that it totally groks.

Pun intended.

But it would be very easy for it to not understand that that's why you were saying that this example of a deck was better than the conventional wisdom version of a deck without you explaining it.

So to recap, the ways to make your LLM not average, negative style guide telling it what you don't want it to do, forced divergence in choice, don't let it fall into its normal patterns of equivocation, cliche burndown, make it identify the templates that are shaping it and then change them, self-critique, ask it more broadly to be critical of itself after it's output something in order to make a second version better,

Switch models, get other models involved in doing that sort of critique so you can get the best of different models for different purposes.

And finally, use examples and explain why the consensus is wrong.

I think you will find that if you use these strategies, while the AI sameness problem that Alex Kantrowitz wrote about won't go away entirely, it is something that you can manage, work with, and overcome for your own purposes.

And especially right now, as everyone shifts to these methods of creation, there is big leverage in using them better.

Anyways, friends, that is going to do it for this weekend episode of the AI Daily Brief.

Hope you're having a great weekend wherever you are.

And until next time, peace.