Discussion

• @noahpinion Noah Smith on x

  I actually believe an AI could be trained to write just like me. But it's not clear why anyone would want to.

• @shallowbrigade Kim O'Connor on x

  I'd be so interested to know who wrote the “personalized” edits that this writer fed to the chatbot. Because it sure sounds like she input the labor of her past human editors...?

• @stefanfschubert Stefan Schubert on x

  This is exaggerated, imo. Opus is decent at writing, even though its judgement is in some ways imperfect. [image]

• @nxthompson @nxthompson on x

  This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]

• @akoustov Alexander Kustov on x

  Always a great read from @jasminewsun. I agree that AI is still a better editor than a writer. But as someone whose most successful post was written by AI, I have to push back on the idea that “LLMs may never be capable of great writing themselves.” I think they already are.

• @cardiffgarcia Cardiff Garcia on x

  @ModeledBehavior Today's piece in the Atlantic from @jasminewsun is about this question: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]

• @kshartnett Kevin Hartnett on x

  As recently as a few years ago, my impression is, knowledgeable people thought AI would be better at writing than coding. Obviously hasn't turned out that way. I think it all comes down to surprise. Great writing constantly surprises you. Within a single sentence it takes turns

• @jasminewsun Jasmine Sun on x

  I am generally quite bullish on AI capabilities, so this piece was as much about LLM training as it is about the ineffable, unpredictable qualities that make good writing good [image]

• @jamesjyu James Yu on x

  was fun to chat with @jasminewsun as part of this piece - it's still day 0 when it comes to creative writing LLMs

• @thomashobohm Thomas on x

  stupid and bad

• @_alice_evans Alice Evans on x

  “Modern LLMs are built in a way that is antagonistic to great writing; they are engineered to be rule-following teacher's pets that always have the right answer in hand.” The brilliant @jasminewsun has written a compelling diagnosis of why LLM writing is so tight-lipped:

• @imurtazashvili Ilia Murtazashvili on x

  I would say that if AI cannot write well, then the overwhelming majority of students and faculty cannot write well.

• @jasminewsun Jasmine Sun on x

  somehow the same AIs that can do PhD-level math and superhuman coding can only write as well as “a real poet's okay poem” (sama's words, not mine!) I talked to the people training AIs to write about what makes it so hard: new from me for @TheAtlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/…

• @nikkimcr Nikki Mccann Ramírez on x

  “'I do not want to be de-skilled,' I remind the machine” is perhaps the bleakest sentence I have read this year

• @damonberes.com Damon Beres on bluesky

  “Sam Altman has predicted that large language models will soon be capable of 'fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics” — but, “might be able to extrude only something equivalent to 'a real poet's okay poem'” @jasmine.bsky.social on wha…

• @frankpasquale Frank Pasquale on bluesky

  “Chatbots produce meaningless metaphors, endless 'it's not this, but that' constructions, and a cloyingly sycophantic tone”  —  www.theatlantic.com/technology/ 2...