Post #1850546

The pleasure of reading a well-made sentence was partly the pleasure of sensing that labour and presence. LLMs don’t struggle and they don’t choose, they just produce statistically probable sequences of tokens, and the result can look uncannily like the outcome of deliberation. The resemblance hollows out the experience of reading even when the text is, in fact, human. https://jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/llms-are-making-me-a-suspicious-reader