There are some words that LLMs really like using at the moment. One of them is using the word “crafting” as a word to mean “creating” or “writing.” I asked Google for thoughts on why that is:
This rings true to me. I also suspect this reflects how these models were trained on content that tried to sound more sophisticated than necessary. Think LinkedIn posts, technical documentation, and marketing copy – places where people often reach for fancier words to add gravitas.
It’s also telling that “craft” implies careful, intentional work. The creators of these models would prefer to present them as thoughtful artisans rather than mass-production text factories. But there’s something amusingly ironic about an artificial intelligence repeatedly choosing this artificially elevated language.
Maybe we need to craft (sorry) a new word that better captures what AI is actually doing.
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