This is timely. One of the fascinating things about chatGPT is its facility with precisely this kind of language usage. The trite ‘nicespeak’ phrases and word

This is timely. One of the fascinating things about chatGPT is its facility with precisely this kind of language usage. The trite ‘nicespeak’ phrases and word choices all contribute precisely zero additional information content or value; that they can be convincingly simulated by the LLM just picking the most appropriate next token suggests honestly that that’s also exactly how they’re employed by humans - just as meaningless padding around the core message. I see a lot of people looking at GPT outputs and saying things like ‘this is great it can take my three bulletpoints and turn them into a complete presentation script!’ - to me that suggests you should skip the presentation and just send a text with the three bulletpoints. GPT is great at adding this performative ‘packaging’. I really hope what that teaches us is we don’t need to waste time with the packaging in the first place.