Raphaël Doan

This is far from a rigorous analysis, but: Beyond all the individual writing quirks (em dashes, negative contrasting, sets of 3) I think the overarching trend of LLMSpeak is the fact that they have a VERY, VERY strong tendency towards compartmentalized or modular writing. Human speech is "semantically turbulent" in that, even when following a linear structure like telling a story or making an argument, there's still an uneven distribution of importance/weight to every sentence. LLMs write every sentence/paragraph as if it was it's own piece of work that will be independently evaluated as good or bad writing, and that has to contain sufficient semantic weight on its own. it's very rare for LLM text to self-reference for minor reinforcement like human writing does. The amount of "meaning" contained in any given snippet of human text varies wildly and is often interdependent with previous parts of the text in a non-linear way, whereas LLM writing is always fully comprehensible and self-contained even with zero surrounding context. The abuse of bullet point structures and the snappy negative contrasting/catch phrases to summarize concepts is a symptom of this. It's like an LLMs worst nightmare is someone reading a given piece of its response and either not understanding it or not thinking it communicates anything to them because they lack context.

As promised, here's the short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year and his take on AI filmmaking

Rather I think we’ll all be like today’s chess players. Strictly worse, even the best of us, than any basic computer model. But doing it for the love of the game, as a fun competition, jousting with each other at comparable levels of skill. One must imagine Magnus happy.

Not an "AI initiative": public funding to host researchers seeking a safe place 4 science. No need to overpay: 300 US academics applied to Aix-Marseille alone in spring 2025 (Riviera ☀️) Europe’s cards: academic freedom, research safety & quality of life. Things money can’t buy.

English miners attempting to dig beneath a French fortification are intercepted by French counter-miners (c. 1415)

📚 L'ISLAM CONTRE LA MODERNITÉ, jour J ! Emu de voir 5 ans de recherches enfin exposés dans toutes les bonnes librairies. Bonne lecture ! Et merci à tous ceux qui m'ont accompagné dans cette aventure !