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Nah, that misunderstands writing pretty fundamentally. Language is how we express ideas. An LLM that could write as well as a person would need to be able to th
by bccdee 9mo ago
Nah, that misunderstands writing pretty fundamentally. Language is how we express ideas. An LLM that could write as well as a person would need to be able to think as well as a person, and they just don't. That's why nobody's publishing LLM books, and why the only LLM articles are SEO slop and advertorials.
We've had LLMs for years. Image models and coding agents have gotten remarkably good, and their output is all over the place. So where is the AI writing? Outside of automated summaries, formulaic essays, and overly verbose LinkedIn posts, nowhere.
- shakna 9mo agoPlenty of dime novels published with AI as well. Resulting in a depressed fiction marketplace, where people are even more hesitant to buy from an unknown author.
- fragmede 9mo agoSomeone hasn't looked at the Kindle bookstore lately.
- bccdee 9mo agoAmazon self-publishing is full of spam, obviously, but nobody buys those. They're the book equivalent of a broken 3-star GitHub repo with 2 commits. If that was all that coding agents were used for, I'd call those a failed use case too.