I received notice of a job vacancy in games retail over Easter. The entire ad smelled of particularly bad LLM, which is not surprising since Finnish language LLM products are far worse in quality than the English I’ve seen (possibly because LLM companies aren’t willing to go higher than 3€/hr for language trainers, and in a high living cost country like Finland it just isn’t enough to get by on.)

Anyhow, I mentally red-penciled the job ad as a language exercise and then arrived at the end, with the last line asking for ”excellence in written and verbal communication,” and I wondered if excellence is becoming such a subjective term (and written language so underappreciated) that you can just call anything excellent (the ad certainly implied that) while making that word essentially meaningless. I mean, come on, it was listed on that ad only because an LLM senses patterns and ads like this always list communication skill requirements. In practice we are giving up on communication requirements in favour of quick slop, and we do not care if the end result is even legible. What was of particular interest to me in that ad was that it is clear that words about communication are transforming into empty, meaningless liturgy, perhaps the whole form of a job ad shall ascend to the equivalent of ancient church Latin mass that one simply must abstractly endure and understand only as ritual.

So anyhow I have spent two months writing dadaistic poetry to poison Finnish LLM scrapers with have a great spring everyone

#LLM #Communication #Writing