alt Hacker NewsI wholeheartedly agree but how can someone only come to this conclusion after years? It is so obvious that writing and reading were for centuries bound in a social contract between reader and writer. Post-modernism if anything reinforced that notion by rebelling against it.
I assure you anyone in the business of administrating stuff through paperwork (government contracting!) is well aware of the complete obliteration of the basic assumption that ‘someone wrote this so it is at least worth a cursory glance’.
For all its other problems this is my main issue with LLM’s. Writing let people communicate across vast distance and time. Given no metadata, today one must initially assume all writing to be noise.
>the complete obliteration of the basic assumption that ‘someone wrote this so it is at least worth a cursory glance’.
The OP is not disputing that a lot of writing already had less than zero value to the reader, even decades ago. So that is not their conclusion.
They are really only saying that problem suddenly got MUCH worse.
You said it perfectly - “All writing now is noise”