alt Hacker NewsMy opinion has shifted over the last few months. Instead of valuing effort put into "putting words together", I am trying to judge the value that I get _from_ the words[0].
I'm reminded of a passage in Stephen Fry's "The Liar"[1], which draws the distinction between a book as an object of art, and a book as a vehicle for communication. If the message is worthwhile, I don't care if it was blurted out by a model or if blind monks inscribed it by hand into vellum parchment.
Don't get me wrong, there's certainly correlation - if I _know_ you've taken a lot of effort to write something, the chances are good that there is worthwhile content being communicated. But the correlation is _not_ perfect.
[0] when it comes to technical writing that intends to communicate information. Narrative writing that intends to evoke an emotion or viewpoint is a different story!
Beyond that, criticism based on a simplistic aversion to the mere usage of an LLM can be ablelist. I think few of us want to give our own time to things others didn't invest time in, but how do you really know why the reader used an llm, or even if they did, at a surface level?
There's obviously no obligation to read someone else's shit, but there's no obligation to criticize it without context either. Why not criticize the content instead of the assumed methods?