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> It’s the sense of authorship. The idea that you can read something and know who wrote it—and whether they meant it This quote from the short prose at the beg
by johnea 1y ago
> It’s the sense of authorship. The idea that you can read something and know who wrote it—and whether they meant it
This quote from the short prose at the beginning of this article expressed one of my major concerns with LLM generated prose.
And specifically, why I don't want LLM generated text as a substitute for web search results.
Since LLM generated prose is a statistical aggregation of web crawling, there is no ability to assess the author's position, or opinions, and how they might affect the author's writing. This removes a major tool in evaluating any potential biases in the writing.
This article itself may have been written by an LLM. But the statement that LLM generated prose eliminates an ability to assess a human's position on a topic is still valid.
Just another step in loosing touch with objective reality. Contrary to popular opinion, perception is NOT reality... It's only an idea inside a person's head, while the overwhelming majority of reality is outside of our liter of jello...