jtwoodhouse

Two things are true here. The em dash shouldn’t automatically be a sign of AI writing. That said, they’re also been quite overused in recent years, which is probably causing them to be overrepresented in models.

You shouldn’t have that many asides to squeeze in, and you don’t need a em dash to make a sentence punchy. All tricks lose their power if you come to depend on them too much.

What does it say about us that we think this is AGI or close to it?

Maybe AGI really is here?

Nothing says “I don’t respect you” like giving someone a sequence from a random text generator.

This is nothing new. Critics wanna be challenged. Audiences don’t.

"A good deal of literary criticism serves only to reinforce a caste system which is as old as the intellectual snobbery which nurtured it. No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person.”

— Stephen King

There’s a clip floating around where Bowie referred to the internet as a new lifeform. I think about that a lot.