Comment by steveBK123
6 months ago
The problem with Ai writing is that its a waste of everyones time.
It’s literal content expansion, the opposite of gzip’ing a file.
It’s like a kid who has a 500 word essay due tomorrow who needs to pad their actual message up to spec.
Well, LLMs can be either side of that. They can also be used to turn something verbose into a series of bullet points.
I agree that reading an LLM-produced essay is a waste of time and (human) attention. But in the case of overly-verbose human writing, it's the human that's wasting my time[1], and the LLM is gzip'ing the spew.
[1] Looking at you, New Yorker magazine.
> I agree that reading an LLM-produced essay is a waste of time and (human) attention. But in the case of overly-verbose human writing, it's the human that's wasting my time[1], and the LLM is gzip'ing the spew.
gzip is lossless, LLM summaries are not.
We can run each LLM-produced essay through an LLM to reduce it to bullet points.
We can then run it through another LLM to reduce it to a single bullet point.
Then we can run it through a final filter, which reduces it to "ai;dr".
Right we are headed towards LLM generated slop summarized by another LLM. Wire format is expanded slop.