Ground control to Major Trial

There's a certain sort of "snarkiness" that's very easy to spot. There's a convicted scammer named Craig Wright (long story) who uses ChatGPT to write long, smug essays on X which have the exact same sort of tone, complete with the weird florid analogies.

> Hard to say if it was a mistake, a flex, or just their way of making sure we didn’t miss who was milking the trials.

> It’s tested. It updates with a single click. It saves time and reduces risk. That’s what we sell. And that’s what they keep pirouetting around with their email dance.

> We’re not going to waste days chasing them. But at some point, this goes beyond saving a few bucks: it becomes performance art.

Thanks for taking time to enlighten me.

ChatGPT loves to do that artificial, inauthentic snark thing with me. Its style and tone are reflective of its reinforcement training.

I’d assert that unless it was specifically trained on my writing style, it is almost impossible to “prompt away” the tone it uses.

And that is the thing about authentic snark, it is crisp and edgy and unique. But LLM’s are trained in a way that would average out millions of different “snarks” so all of the attributes that make snark work go away.