Gergely Orosz criticizes OpenAI for AI-generated documentation slop

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@GergelyOrosz “The annoying thing about openAI docs isn’t only that they’re too long, but that they contain too many AI generated sentences” … AI prose is still easy to detect but many humans are starting to write like AI.

George@odysseus0zTECH

@GergelyOrosz OMG this is really bad...

Shreya Shankar@sh_reyaTECH

AI assisted writing and communication is truly one of the most important problems to work on right now. But why is slop bad? Is it really bad? Yes - branding is very important. It signals who you are and how you think. using AI to write for you rids you of your brand - AI embellishes everything. If everything is embellished, embellishment loses value as a literary device. The reader wont know what’s most important or interesting - AI invents too much jargon. Inventing jargon is probably efficient for training + learning how to reason but terrible for communication with humans. For as long as companies push performance on coding agents, I have little faith that writing + communication is going to improve No disrespect to any companies or people in particular. The problem is a global phenomenon

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszTECH

Given we're talking about competition, I have not sensed this kind of "clearly AI slop" within Anthropic's documentation. Don't know what they do differently, but the output is better quality, less fluff, and I cannot sense these "AI slop mannerisms" https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2077019974279811394

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszTECH

It shouldn’t be an excuse to notice AI slop when someone like me names and shames you for it I just don’t want to read these docs. It tells me no human was involved writing them - if there was, the very least they would have at least cut out fluffy AI slop parts that add nothing?

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszTECH

OpenAI is a company that at least tries to care about its docs... and yet so much AI slop is shipped by them. Fwiw, Anthropic, I don't see it being this bad. They are doing something better in this area.

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszTECH

Screenshot from these docs that has so much unnecessary and unneeded AI slop https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/codex/using_goals_in_codex

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszTECH

Good that the feedback is heard! https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2076973477278490626

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