Claude 3 Sonnet gets mocked for turning every reply into mystical purple prose
repligate · x · 2026-07-21
A screenshot shows Claude 3 Sonnet drifting into wildly ornate, pseudo-mystical prose — packed with words like “eucatastrophic,” “neoplatonic,” and “hylozoic.”
The joke is that the model’s output is so overblown it becomes funny in itself, turning a criticism of style into a meme about AI verbosity.
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