Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
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This statement makes think of fast fashion. It’s just a regurgitation of something that was maybe good.
jul 23, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Single-use text.
jul 23, 2025, 11:57 am • 4 0 • view
And where did the authors of those articles get their ideas from? I mash together of other texts they themselves have read.
jul 23, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
You're not too good for WikiHow guys
jul 23, 2025, 12:31 am • 107 2 • view
The idea that the text outputs of LLMs--built on text of course--is "chat," speech, is part of how the idea that we constantly need to circumvent existing text by generating new disposable text gets naturalized. Nothing wrong with speech, of course, but the point of text is that it can persist.
jul 23, 2025, 9:04 am • 53 0 • view
It feels like a very TechBro mindset that "nothing that already exists has value - we have to disrupt, remix, re-invent the wheel from first principles"
jul 23, 2025, 1:40 pm • 12 0 • view
"Chat" is critical in adoption of LLMs in tech, where they're as an existential threat to jobs as the arts. The use to date is not so much in code generation but as a replacement for stack overflow. The ability to ask for questions, clarifications and examples after the initial test is a key feature
jul 23, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
@ncecire.bsky.social it’s a kind of inversion of “do your research”: “please provide me an authoritative-sounding summary so I don’t reflect on its origin in webpages by randos”
jul 23, 2025, 12:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Sharp and insightful, and of course unsurprising to hear this kind of observation from you. Would you like me to draft the outline of a thesis around this?
jul 23, 2025, 12:51 pm • 8 0 • view
Like a freshly used square of toilet paper! I get it now! Lol. #sarcasm
jul 23, 2025, 9:19 am • 0 0 • view
Guys does reading things others have read make me gay
jul 23, 2025, 12:38 am • 29 0 • view
Only if a guy wrote it.
jul 23, 2025, 1:07 am • 4 0 • view
or a woman wrote it
jul 23, 2025, 3:30 am • 5 0 • view
Especially if a woman wrote it. Nothing gayer than a man interacting with a woman.
jul 23, 2025, 3:35 am • 7 0 • view
Something like fast fashion for the mind, down to the plagiarism and environmental impact
jul 23, 2025, 3:29 am • 29 2 • view
Startpage search is helping me
jul 23, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
Oh man. I never thought about it this way. Exactly. It's romanticizing the same disposable thinking that is killing the planet with everything else we consume in single-use packaging.
jul 23, 2025, 3:30 am • 16 0 • view
it’s the obsequious tone too “look at me being a Good Little Helper, I assembled this garbage sculpture Just For You”
jul 23, 2025, 4:48 am • 7 0 • view
"I absolutely didn't intend for it to be lies, and here's a lying apology constructed from the best sincere apologies I could find online."
jul 23, 2025, 12:57 pm • 5 0 • view
🎯
jul 23, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
We've been comparing AI to the fast fashion model of market capture in our book, Why We Fear AI. Disposable (single use) text is an excellent way of putting it. Just wrote a little thing about tools that can help us think through that
jul 23, 2025, 9:36 am • 7 0 • view
That's very well put! And since we know the LLM's text is just a statistical remix of existing texts *anyway*, I very much *don't want* to be given the illusion of fresh text that is actually just randomised plagiarism.
jul 23, 2025, 9:12 am • 3 0 • view
yeah - GIGO & pitched to push you in the direction it wants you to go. I hate that shit & stay as far away from it as possible
jul 23, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
Huh I hadn't thought about the atomization it encourages.
jul 23, 2025, 3:31 am • 1 0 • view
And each sentence is only the one most likely to follow the previous one. Sure. That's how great works are produced.
jul 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
This crystallizes an incoherent thought I have been having. Thank you.
jul 23, 2025, 2:59 am • 5 0 • view
fight club narrator voice: single-serving facts
jul 23, 2025, 3:49 am • 17 0 • view
Omg
jul 23, 2025, 4:38 am • 2 0 • view
attn @erikas.online more contamination
jul 23, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
Disposable text, disposable people. Efficiency. A smoothly operating machine, constantly disrupted, constantly corrupted, constantly consuming and generating. More product, less substance. Perfected products and perfected people with no there there, always under threat
jul 23, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for sharing a coherent thought on the internet. I needed this today.
jul 23, 2025, 3:36 am • 3 0 • view
its not just anthropomorphism, its turning that anthropomorphic shadow into a subservient "report", a deputy or slave depending on the usecase. perfect id gratification for the temporarily embarrassed millionaire
jul 23, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
and if you don't like the answer, just prompt it again. It's like all knowledge and discourse as a magic 8 ball.
jul 23, 2025, 3:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Well no, if I'm using a LLM to fix a physical problem on my bike it has to actually work. That's the bar. But sometimes people say things that don't work
jul 23, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
that's just essentially a summary of some earlier posted youtube or webpage. I don't think people are really concerned about LLMs in this fashion (it's certainly not the major leap that they are touting).
jul 23, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I find it useful when I don't really know what I want to search for exactly and it almost always better or quicker than using a search engine that don't really throw up forums anymore of someone with your problem. You can also ask the LLM for sources.
jul 24, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
I don't think its use as a slightly better search engine justifies its environmental and social costs.
jul 24, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Bespoke facts
jul 23, 2025, 4:45 am • 5 0 • view
I've only used ChatGPT a few times and all in recent weeks, and it's only been after I've scoured other sources and not found my answer by Google And lo and behold it's not been very good at finding the answers for what I've looked for either
jul 23, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view