Comment by btown

In a forum/community context, speed is vital! If it takes an order of magnitude more time to generate responses like yours and mine, one must choose which conversations one participates in much more carefully, and every such investment risks having the context of the conversation shift dramatically while drafting a response - to the point that one might be considered rude or disconnected. That makes participation essentially impossible.

Someone with a slower rate of both reading and creating text would benefit less from LLM assistance, to be sure. But someone who can read quickly, but may only be able to generate/select a few bits of entropy per second due to physical limitations? (Human speech is widely cited at a median of 39 bits per second.) They’d benefit massively from a system that could generate proposed responses that could be chosen from and refined.

In other words, if you’re the oracle, and the machine asks multiple choice questions until it is certain it speaks with your voice - is there a better set of such questions than just letter-by-letter a-z, a-z, a-z? Does that imply the content is AI-edited? Or is it an accessibility tool?