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> When I pop open facebook and see some page has somehow gotten onto my feed... There are still people watching Facebook with unfiltered feeds? There are filte

> When I pop open facebook and see some page has somehow gotten onto my feed... There are still people watching Facebook with unfiltered feeds? There are filters for that. From the article: "The main people benefitting from the launch of A.I. tools so far are not everyday Internet users trying to communicate with one another but those who are producing the cheap, attention-grabbing A.I.-generated content that is monetizable on social platforms." Yes. The main use case for LLMs remains blithering.

Terr_ 2y ago
> The main use case for LLMs remains blithering. And in a close second-place, to cheaply/easily counterfeit signals that we are/were treating as indicators of human things like "intelligence", "time-investment", "emotional involvement", "distinct identity", etc. I wonder how many traditional cover-letters / essays will vanish because the format has been so debased it doesn't mean anything, and people will say: "Just give me the core bullet-points."