alt Hacker NewsI think it's both true that most LLM writing ("writing") sucks and that it's better than what a lot of people can produce unassisted. Which to me doesn't mean that we should roll over and accept LLM output as a lesser evil... it just means that the bar is so low it might as well be in hell, and rapidly getting lower :')
It's nowhere close to good writing, but it's better than the dreck many self-published writers produce and sell - successfully.
But that's the real problem with LLMs. Culture is aspirational. It has a consistent goal - find the best, highlight it and distribute it so others can build on it.
LLMs are the opposite - produce as much of everything as possible at the lowest possible barely-acceptable-if-you're-lucky quality.
This was already a problem before LLMs. Mass market content farms - Kindle Unlimited, Wattpad, Spotify, social media in general - give everyone an equal voice, with mass popularity and "likes" as the only metric.
Now LLMs are automating the creation process, so everyone gets more of everything.
Except inspiration. Not so much of the "That's astounding, I wonder if I can learn from that and reach for something in that league."