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Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting
There’s something icky about LLM-generated text when you think it’s written by a human. I think I finally put my finger on one reason why I feel this way.
Note on the title: “Artificial Inanity” comes from Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem. Others will be prompting themselves to death by offloading more and more of their reasoning to machines, convinced that the computer—like a slot machine—somehow will let them win bigger in life. I am not saying that LLMs are worthless—they are marvels of engineering and can solve some particularly thorny problems that have confounded us for decades.
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