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by seba_dos1 14 days ago
Of course. The "content" is how humans communicate with each other, it doesn't just exist for its own sake (except in some degenerate cases). If you know that a human has authored it, you can infer their intent and thought-process from various choices they made across it. There's no such thing as intentional choices when the content is generated though.
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I believe that the “thought process” of humans is just another automatic process albeit more sophisticated because it is running on a far more powerful processor that has evolved over millions of years and was honed by many more years of fine tuning in a complex social system. The difference is only a matter of degree.
Sure, but there's so much more going on in a human than "a thought process running on a powerful processor" that current models do not even begin to approximate. We're not some brains steering meatmechs they're trapped in, we're complex machines consisting of interconnected systems running continuous processes with feedback loops that brains are only a single part of (and LLM-like processes in our brains are also only one of many things that happen in a brain). So-called "agents" are nowhere close to having actual agency yet. Once that changes, I may become actually interested in their outputs and opinions in other contexts than technical curiosities, but I'm not convinced that I'll still be around when that happens (if it even happens before we manage to make ourselves extinct anyway).
The comment you replied to was making the point that when humans communicate the writing can reveal their thought processes. Outsource that to AI and that thought process is concealed.

This has almost nothing to do with your reply.