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nobody9999 3 hours ago

>But I think there will always be that feeling of: a human being took the effort to write this. No matter how informative or well written an AI article or comment is, it isn't something we instinctively want to respond to, the way we do when we know there is a person behind the words.

Over and over again, when reading comments from some folks who lionize the usage of LLM outputs, as well as other folks who demonize such usage, I'm reminded of this bit from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle[0], specifically from the "Books of Bokonon"[1]:

   Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds 
   himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people 
   who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. 
And I wonder if, (myself included) those who demonize LLM usage are those who "came by their ignorance the hard way."

I'll admit that the analogy isn't great, but there is something to it IMNSHO. Mostly that many who distrust (and often rightly so) LLM outputs have a strong negative impression (perhaps not "murderous resentment," but similar) of those who use LLMs to spout off.

I suppose this is a bit tangential to the topic at hand, but if it gets anyone to read Cat's Cradle who hasn't already, I'll take the win.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle

[1] https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/personal/bokonon.html