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Here's my most-recent article, discussing a paradox — #BigTech and #LLM rise undermines #journalism and #law — and offering a lifeline: LLMs buy #GroundTruth (e.g., Journalists + Law):
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/llm-sourcing-ground-truth-facts-news-law-damien-riehl-ga76c
#Cybersecurity is the best lake reading! Especially when written by my friend Josiah Dykstra.
@damienriehl @AgileAttorney I've been thinking a lot about this too. So much so I actually built a tool to help leverage LLMs to do exactly this (i.e., help structure thinking an draw out ideas from an author). See
The site is a sandbox for Generative Outlines — representations of a document’s structure and content designed to mediate a dialogue between a would-be author and an LLM. Generative outlines aim to maximize authorship and accuracy.
Are you a Zotero user? Do you ever wish you could search your libraries by idea not keywords? What about the ability to ask questions of your texts? Then this page is for you. Download information from one of your group libraries and interact with it using a number of NLP tools.
@AgileAttorney Yes, I think about your Thing 1 a lot. Writing is thinking. How are we teaching our children to write/think? In an LLM world, is that critical thinking threatened?
Thing 2: Lack of training material for niche/deep expertise. This one is cause for celebration: You're the only one who can write about it: Scarcity + ____ = Profit! 🙂
@AgileAttorney On the prompt engineering — to train on a particular style — being a PITA: Agreed. I think that's reflective of our nascent state. An analogy:
1. In 1999, if you wanted a webpage, you had to do a lot of HTML coding. PITA.
2. Then 2003 saw the founding of both Squarespace and WordPress.
Probably the same for "Hey, LLM: Learn my style." Tools will sprout around the use case, making it easier/faster.
@AgileAttorney , yes, I also hate rage-editing. But perhaps that could be remedied by incorporating "personal house style" prompting?
Like outlined in this article?
https://ai.plainenglish.io/3-simple-tricks-will-make-chatgpt-write-in-your-style-every-time-d761e53cbfa4?gi=1ad90cd8b190
Increasingly convinced that #LLMs (e.g., #GPT), increase user (e.g., #lawyer) creativity. This upward trend will continue.
Insights from this good WIRED article:
- Much of #law (e.g., briefs, pleadings, motions, memos, contracts, advice, ideation) = boilerplate. Standard Language.
- LLMs = stochastic = boilerplate faster. Throat clearing.
- Good Lawyering = creativity (atop boilerplate)
- LLMs ⬆lawyerly #creativity.
I had a great conversation with FT:
All The Music --> All The Patents
Building fun things with Mike Bommarito and team!
https://www.ft.com/content/e5755e20-0768-4035-b2da-76dca571043b
David Colarusso
