I like both your analogy and your scepticism here.

I don't understand it either but when I see an important German publishing house using "AI" for some covers I could despair. There are far too many people ready to degrade themselves.

(For books by Thomas Mann, out of all people!)

RAPHAELLE PEALE
(1774-1825, died in Philadelphia)

Still Life with Apples, Sherry, and Tea Cake, 1822

The recipe sounds great, thank you for sharing it! But also your description of the café in Finland.

... sections anew.

As good as a machine might become at fooling readers (this is questionable, too) - why would I continue reading something when it dawns on me it's not a fellow human being's thoughts but I'm wasting my time on clever sounding combinations by a machine?

... translating, editing, designing etc. These are normal, enjoyable jobs for people.

I've edited machine-made translations, one often ends up with comparing every translated phrase with the original and translating whole ...

Thank you!!

I've forwarded this link to a friend because I like the fundamental questions you ask. It's not so much about what LLMs might be able to do but whether we want that.

(I've deleted the stupid comment of mine in which I proved that I cannot read (thought the article is from years back).)

... to get robots to write poetry “so that we don’t have to” seemed a toe dip in a new pool of dangerous waters—waters that might dissolve what “human” means entirely."

I'm so grateful for you blog and the time you take to write about your research and the dangers of "AI"!

You are aware that you're also fighting editors in publishing houses with phds in the humanities who rave about the endless wonders and possibilities of LLMs? A true horror story!

Yes, that's something to be grateful for! And, of course, we'd wish you'd be spared that heartbreak, too.

... monster copy-paste jobs from a bunch of different places? That’s not a summary. That’s word salad."

"... draft, or “inspiration” (seriously?), or content, this is not what you get. Something without a brain scrabbled around and found stuff that looks like content but isn’t, because it wasn’t chosen, analyzed, and written by a person. Frankenstein’s ..."

I'm sorry to hear that, my condolences!

I add this one as a current example - but how horrrible fact-checking will be when persons cited somewhere die and cannot deny or confirm the quotes ascribed to them.

I didn't know this wonderful source, thank you for sharing this! I'm guilty of many of the vices but thankfully neither"incest" nor "excessive love of order".