This week I watched a very effective writer's output be critiqued as "sounding like AI."
- This week I watched a very effective writer's output be critiqued as "sounding like AI."
- This writer doesn't use AI in his writing, and was deeply offended at the critique.
- Creating high-quality, convincing arguments[ak] used to require a significant skill to do.
- Now LLMs make it so anyone can spin them up at a moment's notice.
- That cheapens even truly well written and effective argumentation.
- LLMs do a good job of reflecting back the high-quality thing that society has found.
- The more high-quality it is, the more likely people are to replicate it, and the more likely it is to be heavily sampled in the LLM.[an]
- But that fundamentally cheapens the highest quality outputs of society.