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AI has overused the rhetorical tools meant to aid comprehension until readers stop noticing them.
Their wordsAI has overused the tools designed to aid human comprehension to the point where I’ve stopped noticing them.
Their wordsFor complex tasks, in the pre-LLM era, generating output was expensive but verification was comparatively cheap. You put in the work to produce something—a document, a piece of code, an analysis—and checking it was tractable.
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If readers cannot comprehend complex ideas or notice errors, they become easier to manipulate.
Their wordsFirst, if consumers can’t comprehend complex ideas or notice errors, they’re easier to manipulate.
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