The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis 5 Prompting Tricks to Make Your AI Less Average
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Oct 19, 2025 Explore the pressing issue of AI's tendency to produce average results. Discover five innovative techniques to elevate AI output, including creating negative style guides to eradicate clichés and forcing clear choices to enhance decision-making. Learn about the value of self-critique and iterative revision for refined outputs. Hear how leveraging multiple AI models can provide diverse insights, and understand the importance of using strong examples to inspire unique content. Transform your AI experience with these actionable strategies!
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AI's Tyranny Of The Average
- AI models tend to produce the "average of averages" because they're trained on the entire corpus of human output.
- That yields high-floor but often unremarkable results that fail when uniqueness matters.
Kantrowitz Essay On AI Sameness
- Nathaniel reads Alex Kantrowitz's essay describing Sora and other tools falling into sameness after initial novelty.
- He uses the essay as a jumping-off point to share techniques he found effective.
Use A Negative Style Guide
- Provide a negative style guide that lists banned words and formatting to avoid generic phrasing.
- Explicitly tell the model what not to do to remove common AI landmines.