[molave]

ChatGPT's style is like an academic writer's. It's tone and word choice are same-ish across various subjects, but it's coherent and easy to understand. In retrospect, I've seen papers that would pass as GPT-created if they're written after 2022.

[nullc]

Hardly. It's been RLHFed into sounding like blogspam from foreign content farms, because they used the same people as raters. The non-finetuned models have a much better 'house style' across a wide range of prompting approaches.

[wildrhythms]

Are we reading the same academic papers? When I read ChatGPT output it reads like pseudo-educational blogspam.

[RIMR]

That's because for the past couple of years models like ChatGPT's have been used to generate psueudo-educational blogspam, and you associate that with writing style with it now.

But generally, ChatGPT writes in a very literal direct style. When you write about science, it sounds like a scientific paper. When you write about other subjects, it sounds like a high school book report. When you write creatively, it sounds corny and contrived.

You can also adjust the writing style with example or proper descriptions of the writing style. As a basic example, asking it to "dudify" everything it says will make it sound cooler than a polar bear in ray-bans, man...