“Writing is thinking. Writing involves both the expression and exploration of an idea, meaning that even as we’re trying to capture the idea on the page, the idea may change based on our attempts to capture it. Removing thinking from writing renders an act not writing.”
― More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
― More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
“LLMs are a mathematical model of language tokens. You give an LLM text, and it will give you a mathematically plausible response to that text.”
― More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
― More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
“Large language models do not “write.” They generate syntax. They do not think, feel, or experience anything. They are fundamentally incapable of judging truth, accuracy, or veracity. Any actions that look like the exercise of judgment are illusory. While the term hallucination has come to mean outputs from LLMs that are incorrect or untrue, it is arguably more accurate to say that from the point of view of the LLM, everything is a hallucination, as it has no reference points from which to judge its own production. ChatGPT is fundamentally a “bullshitter” as defined by Harry Frankfurt in his classic treatise on the term (On Bullshit), something “unconnected to concern for the truth.” It’s not that ChatGPT makes stuff up. It has no capacity for discerning something true from something not true. Truth is irrelevant to its operations.”
― More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
― More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
“Human communication is an artistic technique whose intention it is to make us forget the brutal meaninglessness of a life condemned to death.”
― Writings
― Writings
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