19 points bryanrasmussen 2 days ago 13 comments

boothby 49 minutes ago | parent

My hottest take of the era: LLM voice is perfect grammar and spelling. What’s going to damage Literature?

emil-lp 27 minutes ago | parent

> What’s going to damage Literature?

Probably LLMs.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 37 minutes ago | parent

> the same story (with an identically worded bulletin)

Well....

https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI

shevy-java 28 minutes ago | parent

Again! Another website that annoys visitors with slide-in widgets click-to-continue. So, my perma-ban list of websites grows. Now I need to find an extension to block websites that use those slide-ins ...

emil-lp 28 minutes ago | parent

Can't you just use reader mode like everyone else?

dsign 24 minutes ago | parent

It's LLM-allergies.

The best fully-human writers of the next generation will be those who are very conscientious at grammar class and master all the rules, because by breaking them, they'll be able to push their prose to the most remote and unlikely locales in the geodesics of LLM-next-token-prediction-probability space. Such places where the Machines deign not trudge.

wccrawford 21 minutes ago | parent

"none of these typos, with the exception of the jammed-together dialogue, prohibit access to meaning"

I hear that excuse constantly on the web if I try to correct people. And maybe it doesn't "prohibit access", but it does force me to think about things that aren't the point of the message, in order to figure out the point of the message.

I've given up correcting people. I'm old enough now that it's time to just watch people's choices come back on them. The whole world will pay for it, and I've done what I can.

I can't even get people to stop using "weary" to mean "wary". That's a whole different meaning, and there are so many people that use it wrong.

underlipton 19 minutes ago | parent

People who say "up" or "upped" instead of "rise" or "raise" or "rose". Straight to jail.

flippyhead 14 minutes ago | parent

and omg people that type without capitializing anything wtf i hate them

metalman 9 minutes ago | parent

2brnt2bthtisth?