Decoding LLM Clichés: A Fresh Perspective
Like millions of others convinced they possess knowledge the world desperately needs to hear, I decided to write a book on prompting. In the process (which, by the way, turned out to be far more difficult than anticipated), I found myself examining LLM clichés. You know the ones. At least, in the comment sections of tech blogs, hundreds of self-proclaimed experts use them to spot AI-generated text.Anyway, these clichés definitely exist, and many authors now routinely add blocklists of these phrases to their prompts to weed them out. Whether this is actually a good or a bad thing is what I’ll break down below.Editors, writers, and readers unanimously agree that LLM-generated texts are easily recognized by their heavy reliance on certain tropes: "It’s not just , it’s a ...", "Unlocking the potential of...", "In today's fast-paced digital landscape..."
