In a sense, LLMs- particularly "conversation-shaped" LLMs like ChatGPT- harvest the benefit of the doubt we are all, as readers, used to providing to text.
For most of our lives, most of the text we have encountered was an intentional communication, self-evident through its own existence. LLMs challenge us with something new: text that has the shape of communication, but no intent.
The proliferation of generative "AI" for text will profoundly alter the human relationship to the printed word, and perhaps ultimately dispell that benefit of the doubt.
For most of our lives, most of the text we have encountered was an intentional communication, self-evident through its own existence. LLMs challenge us with something new: text that has the shape of communication, but no intent.
The proliferation of generative "AI" for text will profoundly alter the human relationship to the printed word, and perhaps ultimately dispell that benefit of the doubt.