alt Hacker NewsActually, most conversations I have these days are almost entirely removed from the tech space (think discussions around academic works, theology, politics, etc.), and I would still say that 90% of the interactions I have or read are clearly and obviously written by an LLM. It's not just tech spaces that have this problem, and I think that's where my original thought stems from. Nearly every normie IG post description is written by an LLM, and nearly every Threads comment is written by an LLM, just like X has been. It has escalated out of tech space to the normies. Very soon, "meat space" will be the only space where one can interact with others and know that the thoughts flowed from a human brain and aren't simply the result of someone prompting an LLM to "write a rebuttal." If that makes me not "sane," then so be it.
> Very soon, "meat space" will be the only space where one can interact with others and know that the thoughts flowed from a human brain and aren't simply the result of someone prompting an LLM to "write a rebuttal."
And even that’s being optimistic. I lost faith once I heard that there are people honestly using ChatGPT to ask what to order at a restaurant! If large tech companies like Facebook get their way, you’ll soon be having your smart glasses¹ listen to the conversation, transcribe it, write a response, then show it to you on the lens so you can reply. And that’ll be just for the ones who want to fake it by still moving their lips, because the others will have voice (trained on their own) come out of speakers. “Smart” devices will be having conversations with each other while you are served ads.
¹ The royal “you”, not you literally.