Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain. If you have 1000 bits of semantic information you want to transfer, you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. You might as well transfer those bits to me directly, rather than having the LLM add on an extra superfluous 700 bits that I then have to filter out.
I think there are a lot of situations unaccounted for here
- people writing in a non native language
- people insecure in their writing
- people not used to writing in industry terms
- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well
Surely others too. None of those mean you have to read it, but I have gotten immense value from reading some things people have had ai write (and I’ve seen a ton of junk as well)
> people writing in a non native language
This category of people are going to be most betrayed by LLM output: 1) the receiver loses the signal that the sender might need to be queried to find their real intent and 2) the sender doesn't have the ability to determine if what they are sending is what they mean
> people insecure in their writing
These people can grow up, I don't care. Not a good enough reason to send a slop grenade.
>people not used to writing in industry terms
Similar to the non-native speakers, but slightly less in magnitude. They can educate themselves though.
- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well
These people probably can get some value out of it but they should take care
hatthew · · focus · HN ↗
Writing is fundamentally the transfer of information from your brain to my brain. If you have 1000 bits of semantic information you want to transfer, you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. You might as well transfer those bits to me directly, rather than having the LLM add on an extra superfluous 700 bits that I then have to filter out.
CookieCrisp · · focus · HN ↗
- people writing in a non native language
- people insecure in their writing
- people not used to writing in industry terms
- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well
Surely others too. None of those mean you have to read it, but I have gotten immense value from reading some things people have had ai write (and I’ve seen a ton of junk as well)
automatic6131 · · focus · HN ↗
> people insecure in their writing These people can grow up, I don't care. Not a good enough reason to send a slop grenade.
>people not used to writing in industry terms Similar to the non-native speakers, but slightly less in magnitude. They can educate themselves though.
- people with the curse of knowledge that are aware that they can’t write for a general audience well These people probably can get some value out of it but they should take care
Still not really a good enough reason in the end
CookieCrisp · · focus · HN ↗
I disagree, but I think neither of us are going to benefit from continuing this discussion.