Months of tuning LLMs for news writing: facts are easy, monotony is hard
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-08-22
Responding to Ethan Mollick's point that lack of stylistic variety is crippling LLM writing, the author shares months of first-hand experience tuning LLMs for news: it works, but the model settles into patterns and formulas.
Getting facts and ordering right is much easier than making headlines fun without monotony. Mollick argues that prompting only gets you so far — real variation is needed and under-researched.
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