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> And I discovered the pseudo social network that I’d once found cringe is actually full of smart people—who crop up if I’m willing to spend a bit of extra time sharing my writing with them. Without some heavy sourcing, I am incredibly hesitant to believe this.
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This is as long as the article needed to be.
Hey now, nothing wrong with a Stouffer's, especially for a potluck. Everyone else at the potluck is doing the same thing anyway.
Many people lack the time or writing skills to produce something elegant by themselves, so for them it's like fake breasts: an upgrade for the less discerning larger part of the target audience, as long as they don't look to closely.
Turing (test) failed; didn't read
A valid point of criticism, but I do wonder if this only applies to those who can (still) easily spot LLM assisted output. Many people lack the time or writing skills to produce something elegant by themselves, so for them it's like fake breasts: an upgrade for the less discerning larger part of the target audience, as long as they don't look to closely.
It is still somewhat easy to spot LLM output.
The number of humans who aren't a committee of MBAs and lawyers crafting a memo by consensus that reads like this: "Absolutely! A well-arranged conference can be a delightful experience. Here are some ideas to inspire you:" can be counted on zero fingers.
There is always the risk that what you are reading was indeed written by a committee of MBAs and lawyers crafting a memo by consensus.
My coworkers and I have taken to screenshotting the vapid LLM autoresponses in the tools we use, circling the most appropriate and/or depressingly funny option in red, and sending an image as a message.
The right response is to use AI to write a reply that is verbose and clearly sounds like AI.
And then you have AIs talking to each other slopping junk derived from minimal prompting back and forth. Why have humans at all? For discernment perhaps? Humans have an authentic connection to the real world.
This could be a future version of the "block" button.
Regular "block" button hides everything that the person wrote.
The new, AI-powered "block" button hides everything that the person wrote, but also makes the AI write a response, so that the person never finds out that he or she was blocked.
So at the end, 99% of social networks will be bots talking to bots, but you will still be able to talk to your friends and ignore all of that.
That is, this is what you will think, of course.