I appreciate the connection to artists guiding their teams. I think that's a good analogy.

At the same time, when Koons or Chihuly or Cummins sign their work I do have that expectation that they guided the piece in a meaningful and material way or that the people who built it did it in such a way that owes lineage and authorization to the style Koons/Chihuly/Cummins developed. If I asked one of them about their work and it was clear that they had become so disconnected from it that they couldn't be seen as the authority on it, that they'd delegated that away, then I'd also feel them signing it had a mark of dishonesty about it.

To that end, I genuinely don't know Mr. Gomila's engagement here. Worse, it, to my ear, very clearly is written in a style that's extremely reminiscent of LLMs. In that way, it directly invokes that feeling of inauthenticity when he claims authorship.

This reminds me of academic writing there there's sometimes a convention in author lists that the first author(s) did more of the work and the last author(s) were the PIs and guides. This anchors the work amidst all the authors, at least loosely. I understand that if I want to ask a question about the details of the procedure I can reach out to the first author and if I'm trying to understand the larger research objectives of the lab I can investigate the last author.

Personally, I think I'd feel more comfortable with this piece if it were attributed in that style.

Or, again, if this is genuinely work done in the majority by Mr. Gomila and the writing feels LLM-derived for some other reason then it's merely an unfortunate side-effect of this writing register.

> Worse, it, to my ear, very clearly is written in a style that's extremely reminiscent of LLMs. In that way, it directly invokes that feeling of inauthenticity when he claims authorship.

I get that and also find the style annoying. But, e.g. when I wear a garment that was clearly machine sewn, sit on furniture made with powertools, look at a photo (where a mechanical process determined what pigments appear where, with what intensity), if I eat a taco whose tortilla was industrially rolled ... none of those things seems like a reason to challenge someone taking credit and responsibility for creating a thing, even if 250 years ago they would have had to engage in a much more onerous manual process to create something similar.

So what is it about writing that feels so inauthentic when the human delegates the word choice and sentence structure to a machine? Is it just cultural expectations, and we'll get used to it as LLMs exist longer?

I wonder if partly there's a feeling of disrespect on the part of the reader -- if the author couldn't be bothered to write every word, it's presumptuous to think that other people's time is less valuable and they should read word by word.

Cummins doesn't expect anyone to examine the details of every poppy; we look at the overall effect and maybe admire the detail on one or two flowers. Koons doesn't leave enough evidence of the individual welds for audiences to inspect them; that would destroy the effect. But the default way to consume a language based work is at the word level, and you can't just take in the gestalt in a moment, so the implied demands on attention are greater?