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Brevity is the big disaster of human-generated text since the rise of the phone as default device and the appearance of Twitter. To discuss matters with suffici
by TFNA 4mo ago
Brevity is the big disaster of human-generated text since the rise of the phone as default device and the appearance of Twitter. To discuss matters with sufficient depth and nuance, one often has to write a few solid paragraphs.
If people are now wincing at longform text because they automatically assume it was LLM-generated, then that bodes ill.
- mapontosevenths 4mo agoTo add to this, there seems to be an inability to process metaphor and simile in the younger generations. Likely as a result of the same deficit. They've become very literal, and often mistake anything that's well written for AI slop.
- aarjaneiro 4mo ago"poisoning the well"
- BoingBoomTschak 4mo agoIt is also the soul of wit!
- suzzer99 4mo agoThere's a sweet spot between AI slop and 144 characters. I can tell within a few sentences whether there's a human on the other end getting to the point, or an AI dancing around the point and finding 3 different ways to say the same thing.