大型语言模型喜欢长词和破折号——或者真的是这样吗？“幽灵写手”正在英语世界中阴魂不散。这个语言幽灵能够驾驭散文、诗歌、新闻文体和企业行话。它的多功能性令人惊叹：你可以让它模仿莎士比亚的十四行诗或俗套的海滩读物；模仿欧内斯特·海明威紧凑的文风或是办公室打印机说明书。它的速度极快，每分钟能产出数千字。（海明威一天也很难写出这么多字，而且需要更多的酒。）字斟句酌的写作者们被吓坏了。
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they? GHOST WRITER is haunting the English language. The linguistic spectre can turn its hand to prose, poetry, journalese and corporate jargon. It is frightfully versatile: you can get it to mimic Shakespeare’s sonnets or a schlocky beach read; Ernest Hemingway’s taut prose or the office-printer manual. It is frightfully fast, churning out thousands of words a minute. (Hemingway rarely produced as many in a day, and required much more booze.) Wordsmiths are spooked.
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From the August 1st 2026 edition Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents Explore the edition Reuse this content What’s behind the big interest in miniatures?
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