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Clownmaxxing

2026-06-19 19:59:54.856405+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list, on giving LLMs creative writing around a ToDo list app and seeing what they come up with. I initially closed this tab, but then read lake's fantastic lobste.rs comment:

What the LLM responds with might be mildly amusing the first time, especially at first, but if you've seen one of those outputs, you've seen them all. They tend to follow the same formula, regardless of the prompted style, and will always its most cliché, unsubtle elements. I would sometimes see glimmers of something good, but they were drowned out by the overall, well, slop, and clearly not there because of some latent creativity, but as a stochastic accident.

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