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Forgot to post this one the other day. I know Bluesky users in general love AI, so I think most of you will enjoy this: daringfireball.net/2026/08/follow…

daringfireball.netFollow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated TextI want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.

Kathy Tafel

@kathytafel.bsky.social

21 Aug

John, It's still not writing. Generated text lacks intentionality. plato.stanford.edu/entries/inte.... What you want from generated texts sent to you by others actually is variance not terseness. LLMs are on verbose mode to consume tokens and generate cash for their owners.

plato.stanford.edu Intentionality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Khan Winter

@khanwinter.com

It doesn’t really sound like you read the linked post…

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Kathy Tafel

@kathytafel.bsky.social

21 Aug

Gruber's or The philosophy page? I philosophically disagree with Gruber. But then I studied Intentionality in Philosophy of Mind at UC Berkeley. and subscribe to the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese... POV. (Though I think the name is a bit unfortunate.)

en.wikipedia.orgChinese room - Wikipedia

Khan Winter

@khanwinter.com

21 Aug

Gruber’s. I agree with your point on intentionality and am not trying to undermine your expertise. I agree that in general obviosuly LLM written text is awful to read. But that’s also not really what Gruber’s point is here

Kathy Tafel

@kathytafel.bsky.social

21 Aug

no, he's just calling LLM generated text writing, and I disagree that it's writing. it's math.

Khan Winter

@khanwinter.com

21 Aug

I think there’s a compelling argument there. Especially once you dig into other things like ai generated image slop. That being said, it’s a little besides the point imo. Once someone has written something (or generated it) in the end all I care about is if it’s good or bad.