Comment by AnimalMuppet
6 months ago
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.