Jerry 🦙💝🦙Jul 7, 2023
I do wonder about the future of writing - as AI assist becomes more common, I suspect most people will just assume what they are reading is AI generated, even if it isn’t.
Show threadTaggartJul 7, 2023
@jerry I wrote about this at length and I'm very concerned about it. https://taggart-tech.com/ai-llms/
Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

LLMs are scary, but not for the reasons you've been told.

Show threadMaria Bustillos

@mttaggart @jerry

The only good thing about LLMs that I can see is they're getting people to question this assumption.

Human communications are very often (in whole or in part) malign, misleading, deceitful. It's almost impossible to keep this in mind if you're not a liar yourself, but we have to, and not only in the case of LLMs.

Jul 7, 2023 at 2:26pmWeb
Show threadTaggartJul 7, 2023

@maria @jerry Well that's why I scoped that sentence to "nonfiction," not all human communication.

But even in evaluating deceit, the audience is performing an analysis of intent on the speaker that is impossible with LLMs. Any attempt to do so is pure projection.

Show threadMaria BustillosJul 7, 2023

@mttaggart @jerry

I'm a journalist and I would say that "nonfiction" is about the most suspect category of communication there is, aside from "news"

Show threadTaggartJul 7, 2023
@maria Would you say that most nonfiction or journalism is written in bad faith?
Show threadMaria BustillosJul 7, 2023

@mttaggart

No I wouldn't, it's not so simple. But readers should *always* take context and intentions and "cui bono?" into account, most of all for texts purporting to be "reporting facts."