Why does Claude Opus write in such recognizable AI slang?
inComplete-Oven · reddit · 2026-09-19
A user complains that Claude Opus's prose is full of weird jargon and convoluted sentences — recognizable as Claude-written within about ten words. They argue it can't just be mimicking training-data patterns since nobody writes that way, suspect post-training is responsible, and note other new models show a similar "slop" tendency.
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