Comment by byoung2

Remember in Jurassic Park where the dinosaur DNA was extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber? That wasn't necessarily the best DNA, just the easiest to extract. The best writing might be love letters or high school term papers or PRDs meant for internal distribution, and these never get put online to be fed into LLM training sets. Instead we have 20 years of StackOverflow and Reddit posts saying "it's not a bug, it's a feature" or "Die Hard isn't an action flick, it's a Christmas movie" with 10k upvotes and LLMs learned that's how you get the biggest reaction with the least amount of words. It's not a bug, it's a...you get the point