alt Hacker NewsI actually think we’re overestimating how much of "losing our voice" is caused by LLMs. Even before LLMs, we were doing the same tweet-sized takes, the same medium-style blog posts and the same corporate tone.
Ironically, LLMs might end up forcing us back toward more distinct voices because sameness has become the default background.
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Also ironic is how the post about having a unique voice is written in one-sentence-paragraph LinkedIn clickbait style.
Yes, fully agreed. Most people producing content were always doing it to get quick clicks and engagement. People always had to filter things anyhow and you had to choose where you get your content from.
People were posting Medium posts rewriting someone else's content, wrongly, etc.
Content recycling has become so cheap, effort-wise, it’s killed the business. Thank god.
I mean, if you typed something by your own hand it is in your voice. The fact that everyone tried to EMULATE the same corporate tone does not at all remove peoples individual ways of communicating.
My theory is that LLMs are accelerating [online] radicalization by commoditizing bland, HR-approved opinions. If you want to sound like a human on the internet, for better or for worse the easiest way is to say something that would make Anthropic’s safety team have a heart attack.