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Gavin Leech, Arb co-founder, details a $300 custom workflow and evaluation loop to remove slop from AI-generated writing

The experiment improved outputs but the text still felt flat

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But the most important thing here is that there is any improvement. I don't know whether these methods will scale to great writing. But they have worked on other things.

On a heroic attempt to undo AI slop: hours of coding, an hour of manual data labelling, $300 in APIs... resulting in text which is flat but serviceable.

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@gleech Interesting. Curious, does the rewritten task pass pangram btw?

On a heroic attempt to undo AI slop: hours of coding, an hour of manual data labelling, $300 in APIs... resulting in text which is flat but serviceable.

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But the most important thing here is that there is any improvement. I don't know whether these methods will scale to great writing. But they have worked on other things.

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@krishnanrohit low confidence

rohit@krishnanrohit

@gleech Interesting. Curious, does the rewritten task pass pangram btw?

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On a heroic attempt to undo AI slop: hours of coding, an hour of manual data labelling, $300 in APIs... resulting in text which is flat but serviceable.

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