I've been trying to game this out in my head over the last twelve months, and I agree. The one thing I would add is a fear for a market for lemons type situation, where the growing flood of LM enabled content makes ppl less willing to engage with stuff from unknown sources, partly killing public spaces, which could make it much harder for new voices to break through and privilige ppl with preexisting networks or who live in influential geographic areas.
But I'm also optimistic for what it will do to writing. "How I can I write the compliment of what GPT does" is a fairly good rule of thumb if you want to write well.
Poets, novelists, reporters, philosophers, etc. All those use words for a purpose, to share something important.
Whoever writes smth youd rather download into your brain matrix style will be replaced i think. But whoever writes things that you'd want to linger on and reread, explore and ponder- that i dont think so fast.
I feel barely qualified to comment, since I know so little about these developments and the writers you cite--but as an editor, I know that the implications are profound. I like your point about LLMs/AGI helping those with interesting ideas but little talent for writing to express themselves better. I've also read a post about GPT-3 that praised its ability to get the writer past writer's block. I think Shadow Rebbe is right: writers who write things you want to linger on and reread will survive.
I've been trying to game this out in my head over the last twelve months, and I agree. The one thing I would add is a fear for a market for lemons type situation, where the growing flood of LM enabled content makes ppl less willing to engage with stuff from unknown sources, partly killing public spaces, which could make it much harder for new voices to break through and privilige ppl with preexisting networks or who live in influential geographic areas.
But I'm also optimistic for what it will do to writing. "How I can I write the compliment of what GPT does" is a fairly good rule of thumb if you want to write well.
tom wolfe was more right about the value of experiential writing than he ever could have anticipated
This was thought provoking! Thabks!
Wrirers is a wierd title.
Poets, novelists, reporters, philosophers, etc. All those use words for a purpose, to share something important.
Whoever writes smth youd rather download into your brain matrix style will be replaced i think. But whoever writes things that you'd want to linger on and reread, explore and ponder- that i dont think so fast.
I feel barely qualified to comment, since I know so little about these developments and the writers you cite--but as an editor, I know that the implications are profound. I like your point about LLMs/AGI helping those with interesting ideas but little talent for writing to express themselves better. I've also read a post about GPT-3 that praised its ability to get the writer past writer's block. I think Shadow Rebbe is right: writers who write things you want to linger on and reread will survive.
Re the second to last point, ESL people will be more empowered to write as well! (Or other non native speakers of any supported language)