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I’m reading that people now think that if an essay has em dashes, is grammatically correct, and is well organized, that this is automatically a sign of AI?
I mean, did it never occur to them that LLMs are trained on 1.) actual human writing from previous generations, and 2.) we members of these older and previous generations received a good enough educations that taught us how to write well?
*clutches forehead feeling the weight of an entire history of educational standards that people struggled and worked for and understood was necessary for a civilized society and democracy*
Illiteracy is one thing and can be remedied with education. What concerns me more is the lack of curiosity, willful ignorance, and demand for spoon-fed answers that have become normalized.
Willful ignorance and outright stupidity are the tools that destroy a society. There is nothing good or useful about them.
Makes me miss the old days when we had to walk to the library and do the work. Moving through space and time means a commitment to learning and results in better understanding and memory retention.
Anyway, here’s the queen of the dashes and wisdom:
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson, 1891
I mean, did it never occur to them that LLMs are trained on 1.) actual human writing from previous generations, and 2.) we members of these older and previous generations received a good enough educations that taught us how to write well?
*clutches forehead feeling the weight of an entire history of educational standards that people struggled and worked for and understood was necessary for a civilized society and democracy*
Illiteracy is one thing and can be remedied with education. What concerns me more is the lack of curiosity, willful ignorance, and demand for spoon-fed answers that have become normalized.
Willful ignorance and outright stupidity are the tools that destroy a society. There is nothing good or useful about them.
Makes me miss the old days when we had to walk to the library and do the work. Moving through space and time means a commitment to learning and results in better understanding and memory retention.
Anyway, here’s the queen of the dashes and wisdom:
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson, 1891