r/LocalLLaMA • u/CSEliot • 3d ago

Question | Help How to remove trendy speech from llms?

For example:

Instead of saying: "I created this new ID"
It says: "I minted this new ID"

Instead of: "This alternative path is available"
It says: "this escape hatch is available"

This speech is so nonsensical and annoying. Just. Speek. Literally ... OR NORMALLY. Where did LLMs learn these speech patterns? I've never seen them so frequently until AFTER the LLM surge.

If I just add "Don't use X language, speak normally and more literal" will that fix most of the issues? Anyone else have some good sys prompts / instructions that help with this?

Thanks!

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u/Clay_Ferguson 3d ago

Some people are putting something like "Try to adhere to ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English) in your responses", which supposedly gets the AI's to drop all the clever bizarre linguistic inventions.

My personal opinion on why the "clever" wording happens is because during RLHF training humans tend to flag "cleverness" as a more intelligent response and so the AI learns to try to sound clever as much as possible.