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Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand? — mentioned by eproxus

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:35:53 GMT

There is this article on this topic, which I found quite interesting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.29162 Compared with human writing, all nine frontier and near-frontier models use more inanimate subjects with animate verbs and more low-frequency n-grams, and most also use longer dependencies, more stacked nouns, and more reduced object relatives in conversation. [...] We propose and test a hypothesis as to why: while human language is optimized for successful communication, AI-generated text is increasingly optimized for other goals like math, code, and reasoning, in which there is a pressure…

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Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand? — HN submission

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:04:57 GMT

Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

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Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand? — HN submission

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:04:30 GMT

Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?

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Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand? — HN submission

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:42:29 GMT

Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?

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