IMO, this is more ranting about people who meet the metrics of the platform.
You're a platform drone, you have no mind, yada. Yet, we are reading the author's blog.
The author may hate LLMs, but they will lead to many people realizing things they never were aware of, like the author's superficial ability to take information and present it in a way that engages others. Soon that will be a thing that is known. Not many will make money sharing information in prose.
What the author refers to as "LLMs" today, will continually improve and "get better" at everything the author has issues with, maybe in novel ways we can't think of at the moment.
Alternative take:
"Popular culture" has always been a "lesser" ideal of experience, and now that ontological grouping now includes the Internet, as a whole. There are no safe corners, everything you experience on the Internet, if someone shared it with you, is now "Popular culture".
Everyone knows what you know, and you are no longer special or have special things to share, because awareness is ubiquitous.
This is good for society in many ways.
For example, with information asymmetry, where assholes made others their food, it will become less common that people are food.
Things like ad-driven social networks will fade away as this realization becomes normalized.
Unfortunately, we are at the very early stages of this, and it takes a very long time for people to become aware of things like hoaxes.
You're a platform drone, you have no mind, yada. Yet, we are reading the author's blog.
The author may hate LLMs, but they will lead to many people realizing things they never were aware of, like the author's superficial ability to take information and present it in a way that engages others. Soon that will be a thing that is known. Not many will make money sharing information in prose.
What the author refers to as "LLMs" today, will continually improve and "get better" at everything the author has issues with, maybe in novel ways we can't think of at the moment.
Alternative take:
"Popular culture" has always been a "lesser" ideal of experience, and now that ontological grouping now includes the Internet, as a whole. There are no safe corners, everything you experience on the Internet, if someone shared it with you, is now "Popular culture".
Everyone knows what you know, and you are no longer special or have special things to share, because awareness is ubiquitous.
This is good for society in many ways.
For example, with information asymmetry, where assholes made others their food, it will become less common that people are food.
Things like ad-driven social networks will fade away as this realization becomes normalized.
Unfortunately, we are at the very early stages of this, and it takes a very long time for people to become aware of things like hoaxes.