> If you pick a random book written in the last 100 years, the odds are very poor that it will be high quality and a good use of time. Yes, but a physical book

> If you pick a random book written in the last 100 years, the odds are very poor that it will be high quality and a good use of time. Yes, but a physical book exists because somebody thought it worthwhile to sacrifice part of a tree, some ink, and some electricity to make the book exist. A tiny cost, but still larger than the cost of putting stuff on the web. As a result, the randomly-chosen book is significantly more likely to be a good use of time than the randomly-chosen web page. Like 0.05% chance vs 0.01% chance. Prose text on the web exists because somebody thought it worthwhile to sacrifice some amount of some human's time writing it. The GPT stuff removes even that signal.