“I wanted to write you a short letter, but I didn’t have time, so I wrote you a long one”
It’s often attributed to Mark Twain but it applies here. It takes time to convey certain kinds of points in a concise and direct way. Your point about crowing out is also very valid. In a car group that I’m in, someone posted a review of a new vehicle that was very obviously AI generated. After being called out, they vehemently denied it and then slowly admitted that AI helped bring the points together. But bringing the points together requires THINKING. Which we seem compelled to outsource to silicon.
also using pengram to detect ai slop on linkedin twitter has done wonders for my mental health but makes you scared for society. legit 99% of posts on LinkedIn are ai.
How you are here is how you are there. Today we have an opportunity to strengthen our range of conversation wherever we converse. Your discernment here shows up in person. That’s what we all need more of. Keep going, Jack!
thought over the time that AI is going to lead to more "NFT", and not as a tradable instrument, but it'd make the document verifiably real/disincentivize slop
You're absolutely right to point this out — it's not just the verbosity of how LLMs write, it's also the odd sentence structure they choose too! 🤯
Jokes aside, the cost of producing sensible text/code has gone to zero and there is obvious downside with that. A friend who writes for fun on Substack has taken to adding disclaimers disclosing that AI _wasn't_ used at all in the development of his pieces.
fight the slop.
SlopCannon takedown of AI slop is very meta
“I wanted to write you a short letter, but I didn’t have time, so I wrote you a long one”
It’s often attributed to Mark Twain but it applies here. It takes time to convey certain kinds of points in a concise and direct way. Your point about crowing out is also very valid. In a car group that I’m in, someone posted a review of a new vehicle that was very obviously AI generated. After being called out, they vehemently denied it and then slowly admitted that AI helped bring the points together. But bringing the points together requires THINKING. Which we seem compelled to outsource to silicon.
also using pengram to detect ai slop on linkedin twitter has done wonders for my mental health but makes you scared for society. legit 99% of posts on LinkedIn are ai.
Prompts in the bag bro
Reminds me of a great line I once read: "AI is not a vending machine for masterpieces."
Which, I am saddened to report, was written by ChatGPT.
How you are here is how you are there. Today we have an opportunity to strengthen our range of conversation wherever we converse. Your discernment here shows up in person. That’s what we all need more of. Keep going, Jack!
I think more Hemingway is generous unfortunately
thought over the time that AI is going to lead to more "NFT", and not as a tradable instrument, but it'd make the document verifiably real/disincentivize slop
You're absolutely right to point this out — it's not just the verbosity of how LLMs write, it's also the odd sentence structure they choose too! 🤯
Jokes aside, the cost of producing sensible text/code has gone to zero and there is obvious downside with that. A friend who writes for fun on Substack has taken to adding disclaimers disclosing that AI _wasn't_ used at all in the development of his pieces.
Insightful piece. I notice I've gotten cynical about most writings and assume that it's AI generated, not spending much time with them.