Study: Claude's 'bureaucratese' likely stems from congressional testimony data in SFT
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-08-21
A study on AI text style found that early models were SFT'd on Q&A pairs prevalent in US congressional testimonies within the pretraining dataset. This leads to specific bureaucratic patterns (e.g., 'You're absolutely right–') in model outputs, potentially explaining the origin of the distinct 'Claudelish' style attributed to Claude.
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