> you can't give 300 bits of semantic information to an LLM and have it fill in the remaining 700, because it doesn't know what those 700 bits are. If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer.
It doesn't actually follow, because maybe the LLM is smarter than the original writer (at least in the domain the writing is about) and hence really is able to complete the ideas in a way the writer can't. As an existing example, consider formulating a conjecture and having an LLM prove it. But I agree; if I wanted to read an LLM's output I'd simply ask it myself rather than read someone's supposedly-human writing.
It doesn't actually follow, because maybe the LLM is smarter than the original writer (at least in the domain the writing is about) and hence really is able to complete the ideas in a way the writer can't. As an existing example, consider formulating a conjecture and having an LLM prove it. But I agree; if I wanted to read an LLM's output I'd simply ask it myself rather than read someone's supposedly-human writing.