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The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks

This article explains why AI-generated text lacks the unique voice of human authors, using information theory concepts like probability distributions and KL divergence. Alignment techniques like RLHF push models toward a low-variance 'Annotator Consensus Dialect', and prompting or temperature adjustments fail to reproduce human stylistic irregularity.

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The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks
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  • Human authorial voice is a specific probability distribution; alignment techniques like RLHF push models toward a low-variance consensus dialect.
  • Prompting for style shifts the mean but cannot emulate the structured irregularity of human writing.
  • Temperature scaling and other decoding strategies add arbitrary noise rather than conditional deviations.
  • Alignment does not erase latent diversity, but current inference-time steering is limited, making AI writing detectable.

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