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The AI booster argument that "oh well, human writers are also influenced by other writers" is both insanely dumb and insanely insulting; kind of thing that should get you branded for life as a dolt.

Even if you're a delusional LLM-consciousness maximalist you have to concede that an LLM exists purely in a world of language. A human writer has a huge continuum of experiences that are *inaccessible through the pure ingestion of language-like symbols.*

That should be a very obvious and evident thing to observe! A human writer is not sourcing the entirety of what goes into their writing from other writing that they've read.

And furthermore, when we talk about writers being "influenced" by the work of other writers, we are describing a process that is in no way analogous to generative model training, and to suggest that it is is just shows that you don't know piss about the subject matter here.