Why AI-Generated Text Is Harder to Understand Than You Think

AI models may be becoming harder to understand because their training increasingly rewards solving problems efficiently rather than explaining things clearly to humans. The above, unedited sentence was written by ChatGPT in response to a request for an ELI5, single-sentence summary of a science paper; and it features at least a few of the language-mangling traits explained in that new study*. The new work concludes that this issue affects all frontier models, as well as near-frontier models...