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We spent tens of billions training models just to replicate the exact energy of a college student trying to hit a minimum word count on a Sunday night.

As an editor, I’ve been trying to tell people that AI text replaces easy-to-fix problems with hard-to-fix ones. But my employer is all in on AI, so it’s hard to get the message out.

On the other hand, in the hands of an experienced mathematician who understands the literature and knows what problems are interesting and amenable, LLM's are now being used routinely to solve good, hard problems that have been open for years or even decades. It's a revolution.

And text riddled with clichés.

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It’s a whole new world for editors and teachers. In “Memories, Dreams, and Reflections,” Carl Jung tells of an incident where he was accused of plagiarism because his essay was of such high quality that the teacher was certain it was copied but could not find the source. It nearly destroyed him.

Absolutely agree. Reviewed an article recently where authors declared AI assistance for refining language and for image generation, they claimed to have checked everything and took full ownership. The number of spelling mistakes in the figures alone called into question validity of the whole paper

That matters. We must learn to reason on our own, and we must grow into who we become instead of accepting an identity of amalgamated human paste, derived by processed thought, devoid of caloric or nutritional value. Be real. Be flawed. Grow from it.