> it is not the writer who ultimately determines meaning: it is the reader. This fact is almost never raised in discussions of AI and LLMs but is actually the

> it is not the writer who ultimately determines meaning: it is the reader. This fact is almost never raised in discussions of AI and LLMs but is actually the reason so many people are tricked into believing there is conscious intelligence behind them. Words are are symbolic abstractions that are pre-invested with meaning and don’t require an intelligence to communicate that meaning.