The author's humor is excellent (eX) Twitter, etc However, there are two things: 1) once you can generate arbitrarily parameterized bullshit (a piratical sonne

The author's humor is excellent (eX) Twitter, etc However, there are two things: 1) once you can generate arbitrarily parameterized bullshit (a piratical sonnet telling you to drink Coke), you can then filter on truth. This isn't always easy, but this talk presents one way to validate that it is, in fact, quoting the material it's supposed to https://youtu.be/yj-wSRJwrrc?si=MiZHn1xjFNv1nEGv https://youtu.be/yj-wSRJwrrc?si=MiZHn1xjFNv1nEGv ^^ 2) we should care about what people do with this. We should want people to use it for good, and we can shame people who don't. For outright evil we can make it illegal when existing laws don't suffice (and we should) 3) text is an interesting medium. It's universal in a lot of ways. There's a cynical take at Google that you're just converting one proto to another, and I suspect some white collar workers think they're just taking some text and reformatting it. I don't dispute that some jobs are useless, but I think that "just writing emails" or "just modifying text" isn't completely useless, and something interesting will happen if we can improve productivity in these areas ^^ you can just do a string contains on the original text vs the quotes it gives you, so this isn't fancy