AI-generated Text is Boomer Text

I’ve said it before: AI-generated text often sucks.

It’s just so boring! It’s generally incredibly verbose and monotone, with lots of “filler words”.

And now I’ve realized why: these models were trained on boomer text.

Back in the day, people would actually pick up a novel and read it start to finish. Finishing 700-page books was monthly matter for my parents.

These days, kids demand nothing but fast and snappy content. Books turned into YouTube turned into YouTube Shorts. Content that was once viral is now impossible to comb through. Writing rules that were once established fail to hold our attention, or were completely proven ineffective.

ChatGPT can hardly tell the difference.

And this makes me doubt: if ChatGPT can hardly generate content that keeps up with the people currently consuming it, how will it evolve towards future generations? Can we predict trends in the evolution of human cognitive reasoning? Or will it take a much longer time for language models to correctly model parts of human psychology?

Anyway, till then, I’ll sit out on the street with my poster saying “AI text is boring”:

Change my mind.