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Jacob Falkovich

What Jacob Falkovich thinks about LLMs

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  1. Our readingLarge language models write to satisfy an evaluator's grading criteria rather than to move a human reader.

    Their wordsLLMs write to get a grade, not with the goal of moving the reader.

    ↗By Chains or by Promisesputanumonit.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingBecause they never get bored, confused or distracted, large language models are an ideal captive reader rather than a free one.

    Their wordsLLMs themselves are the perfect captive reader: they never get bored or confused, never miss a reference or have an emotional reaction, never ask themselves why am I reading this?, never close the tab.

    ↗By Chains or by Promisesputanumonit.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

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  5. Our readingTrying to avoid AI-writing tells as a human writer is pointless, since readers who fixate on them ignore substance anyway.

    Their wordsThere's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.

    ↗Slop Readersputanumonit.com 2nd of 2 in this piece