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by _l7dh 377 days ago
Behind this rhetorically articulated question, there is a simplistic view of content generation and consumption. First off, if you use LLMs, you are _constantly_ reading stuff nobody else bothered to answer you. So, it's not about who speaks, it's about the what. Then, what you deem as written by nobody turns out (not without irony) an average of so many (possibly) good writings and thoughts, gleaned from various corners of the web. In this regard, I particularly like--and want to shout out--the author's clarity on the work's attribution. It's not his. It is Claude's, hence, everybody's (in a sense). Finally, as a mere form of compressed human written productions, LLMs don't have agency over what they generate. So the prompting, the idea, as well as some editorial decisions are still attributed to the person behind this, hence making it unique in its own way. Instead of seeing as a piece that he didn't bother write, I see it as piece he chose to edit summoning the ghosts of every writer who ever put something on internet, which again, he correctly credits (to the limits of knowing what exact data Claude uses... which is another story).