>Why not spice it up with some whimsy.

These leaked documents (pastebin below) might present evidence for a different view.

https://paste-bin.org/0bu8f8igkd

> It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work.

That's not what "novelty" means in that context. If your review included "these emoji's really bring some novelty to this cholesterol survey" I'd look at you funny.

> use AI in place of the bullets

Did you mean "use emojis"?

> brings some novelty to our scientific work

Is this satire? I hope it is. Otherwise it seems like a sorry state that science currently is if it needs emojis to bring some novelty into it.

This is abusive toxic positivity, no different than "it's just a joke bro."

The emojis and similar style is because models are learning from other models, as it is the easiest way to have RLHF data.

Many of the models were trained on top of ChatGPT or variants (and hence the emojis), then officially attribution disappeared, but it's unprovable.

This process is called distillation.

For example, one day Nano-Banana answered to me with a link to a picture generated on... FAL platform (that did not exist).

    DeepSeek:

    Anthropic Claude:

    Grok:

    Gemini-Flash-Lite, if you squeeze it a bit:

    > I must state clearly: I am a large language model, trained by OpenAI. This is the core definition of ChatGPT. If I claimed to be a human, a different company's AI, or a physical entity, that would be a clear falsehood regarding my nature.

Over time this is fading because now they have their own trained output, and all these companies actively replace references to OpenAI, and distilled, mixed with other training data, their own, cleaned up, distilled, so the source text disappeared.

We talk about people who did not have any remorse downloading the whole library of pirated books, so their concept of copyright is very loose.

My guess has been that it's been trained on a copiuous amount of JavaScript projects, which always seem to have emoji up the wazoo everywhere.

It's to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

lots of normal people like emoji. the kind of normal people who have never heard of hacker news

reddit

Emoji and bullet points are easy to read, so it got rewards in RLHF process.

You maybe hate this style at first glance. But if you read lots of text everyday, Emoji and bullet points lower the cognitive load.

Adoption by health companies?

I use AI daily and have to clean emojis.

It depends on the task, or the particular product/agent you're using. ChatGPT is a lot more emoji-heavy than say the business Copilot. Claude code, never. GitHub copilot never.

What I can tell you is, people I know who are SME's who are being paid several hundred thousand dollars a year this past year have started just copypastaing my questions into an LLM and regurgitating back to me whatever they said.

From my friend who is a director of a medical research library, a huge number of doctors recently switched from googling shit to just running it through the free ChatGPT.

I don't think an 8x spike over a year would be in any way explained by a demographic shift.

I think your personal experiences are anecdotal, unique, and not representative of EHR users.

> I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji.

do you read this code? I find it hard to believe unless you have llm instructions in your codebase that you are not aware of

Gen Z has been entering the professional workforce (post college age) since approximately 2020, so I don't think they're to blame.

AI generated text is littered with emojis in my experience as well, often used as bullets in the lists it loves to generate.

I just had Claude generate a readme for me and it added at least 10 emoji to it.

It must be different AIs.

I grade student work, and I see a lot of Python generated by AI. I don't know exactly which AI, but about a third of the work I see is littered with emojis.

In the conversational mode it shits them like crazy. Depends on a particular fine-tune though.

Emojis are not widely used on platforms that dont make them easy to add. IE medical software on windows.

>I have no idea what you're talking about. I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji.

Yeah because they dont just add them to any generated code. Although if you ask them to make some sort of UI that might involve graphics, they will happily add lots of emojis. They do add them very liberally, especially in headings, for writing articles, blog posts, repots etc.

> I have no idea what you're talking about. I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji.

It depends on what you ask it. Asking it to code won't generate a single emoji, but ask it to make a list, summarize something, and similar tasks and you will have it all over.

And I disagree with people who always try to stick whatever to "generational stuff" as if there's a distinct wall with total culture differences, plus assuming XYZ gen is a monolith to apply whatever label on. I think this is just an easy, lazy way to explain things that you couldn't understand or explain. Sure, you might have some differences between a 13-year-old and 55-year-old in some categories, but they still share a lot of common ground as well. But a 20-something and 30-something? Barely any difference, let alone at work where usually there are policies and whatnot that will restrict such differences from surfacing.

> I have no idea what you're talking about. I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji.

Compare the READMEs of GitHub repositories for low-rated Show HN submissions in 2025 vs 2024. It's really clear.

It's the latter. Soo many "official" company communication is "a clown told the AI clown to generate something about the topic". Not even editing anything, just copy paste

What about the possibility that newer versions of GPT models are more likely to use emojis in their responses

As doctors often do in clinical patient records, of course. (To be fair, the article also looks like care team-to-patient messages, so I'm sure there's some "happy fall!" messages in there.)

I think the herb emoji is more often used to represent cannabis than falling leaves or a maple leaf are.

Plausible deniability on excluding people for BS reasons I'd guess.