This is a brilliantly written rant. 2017 seems quite early to have formed this opinion so vehemently, but what's astonishing is how fringe it is even now. >> W

This is a brilliantly written rant. 2017 seems quite early to have formed this opinion so vehemently, but what's astonishing is how fringe it is even now. >> What you describe here reminds me of the prolefeed-generating machines in "1984", generating an constant stream of pulp novels from the same passages endlessly permuted. I've thought quite a bit about those popular songwriting machines in 1984 recently, and I think I've witnessed our approach toward something like that as a culture, in movies and music. Another great much-too-early vision of LLM havoc is contained in the first few pages of P.K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth". It'll make you laugh out loud, how close he got to describing the job of a politician who has to write LLM prompts and is frustrated at it spitting out nonsense because he's too lazy to write thoughtful ones.