O'Reilly Radar writer studies why AI writes in inverted, Yoda-like syntax
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O'Reilly Radar writer says he uses AI to produce deliberately bad draft text as a placeholder outline for his book Be the Model.
He calls the AI's inverted sentence structure "Yoda-speak." He says ChatGPT can recognize and correct the pattern when told the text is Yoda-speak. He offers a theory for why the pattern occurs and says an experiment he ran supports it. The report does not give the theory's details or the experiment's results.
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AIO'Reilly Radar writer says he uses AI to produce deliberately bad draft text that serves as a placeholder outline for his book Be the Model. He calls the AI's inverted sentence structure "Yoda-speak" and says ChatGPT can recognize and correct it when told the text is Yoda-speak. He offers a theory for why the pattern occurs and says he ran an experiment supporting it.
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