In a way it does provide something useful. A null hypothesis. If you take the output of GPT for what it really is; the sum of all written human thoughts divid

In a way it does provide something useful. A null hypothesis. If you take the output of GPT for what it really is; the sum of all written human thoughts divided by several billion - resulting in a soup of banal, conformist cringe - then it's a marker. Original human content can be graded by its deviation in some high dimensional space of semantic novelty. There are two worrying social fallouts from this: Firstly we will get used to our posts being graded, not by each other, but by algorithms. Second, this creates an incentive to post more extreme and unhinged content.