After giving my son most of my cherished record albums, some dating back to 1965, I have asked for them back and begin to build a new collection of used records. The warps, scratches, crackles and pops are what make listening a perfect experience these days.
Great post and hold the line. If enough enterprises like your own keep these priorities it'll set a baseline for the new literary world (shall it grow) to follow.
I like the hard line drawn here, at the very least, because this type of thing doesn't actually go without saying. I've got a front row seat to the creep of LLMs at my day job and while I'm less interested/concerned about it in that setting, it feels important to not let the adoption of this new way of computing desensitize or normalize the possible corruption of what is, for a lot of us, a purely human endeavour. We eventually won't be able to tell the difference between text generated by a human or LLM—and this is going to sound like some kind of sick joke—so we'll have to take each other at our word.
the trouble with AI “proofreading” is it’s only as good as the humans who were used as input, whether that’s non-english-major programmers or reddit jabberers (the real “million monkeys with typewriters”). there can never be a robot who appreciates the evolution of literary english even if it could be given the entire corpus as raw material. get a dictionary. learn to spell.
All of my sentences are run-on. I’d like to see AI do that.
a wise and sane position, which makes for a long-term investment in building a committed readership and a culture of excellent human writing
After giving my son most of my cherished record albums, some dating back to 1965, I have asked for them back and begin to build a new collection of used records. The warps, scratches, crackles and pops are what make listening a perfect experience these days.
Great post and hold the line. If enough enterprises like your own keep these priorities it'll set a baseline for the new literary world (shall it grow) to follow.
I like the hard line drawn here, at the very least, because this type of thing doesn't actually go without saying. I've got a front row seat to the creep of LLMs at my day job and while I'm less interested/concerned about it in that setting, it feels important to not let the adoption of this new way of computing desensitize or normalize the possible corruption of what is, for a lot of us, a purely human endeavour. We eventually won't be able to tell the difference between text generated by a human or LLM—and this is going to sound like some kind of sick joke—so we'll have to take each other at our word.
I really like your policies on AI and very clever tactic of writing about Ayahuasca first!
Thank you :)
Policies all sound very sound. But you realize you had to write an entire post about Ayahuasca to get me to read it.
the trouble with AI “proofreading” is it’s only as good as the humans who were used as input, whether that’s non-english-major programmers or reddit jabberers (the real “million monkeys with typewriters”). there can never be a robot who appreciates the evolution of literary english even if it could be given the entire corpus as raw material. get a dictionary. learn to spell.