IMO a not yet fully understood but important aspect of this situation is that what someone writes is in part testimony—they’re asserting something that others may or may not be able to verify themselves easy, or even at all. This is how communication usually works, and it has goods (you get independent information) and bads (people can lie/distort/troll/mislead). If a person is posting AIgen stuff, it’s much less so testimony from that person. It’s more correlated with other stuff that’s already in the water, and it’s not revealing as much about the person’s internal state—in particular, their models. I’m supposed to be able to read text under the presumption that a person with a life is testifying to the effect of what’s written. Even if you go through and nod along with what the gippity wrote, it’s not the same. I want you to generate it yourself from your models so I can see those models, I want to be able to ask you followup questions, and I want you to stake something of the value of your word on what you publish. To the extent that you might later say “ah, well, I guess I hadn’t thought XYZ through really, so don’t hold me to account for having apparently testified to such; I just got a gippity to write my notions up quickly”, then I care less about the words (and they become spammier).
IMO a not yet fully understood but important aspect of this situation is that what someone writes is in part testimony—they’re asserting something that others may or may not be able to verify themselves easy, or even at all. This is how communication usually works, and it has goods (you get independent information) and bads (people can lie/distort/troll/mislead). If a person is posting AIgen stuff, it’s much less so testimony from that person. It’s more correlated with other stuff that’s already in the water, and it’s not revealing as much about the person’s internal state—in particular, their models. I’m supposed to be able to read text under the presumption that a person with a life is testifying to the effect of what’s written. Even if you go through and nod along with what the gippity wrote, it’s not the same. I want you to generate it yourself from your models so I can see those models, I want to be able to ask you followup questions, and I want you to stake something of the value of your word on what you publish. To the extent that you might later say “ah, well, I guess I hadn’t thought XYZ through really, so don’t hold me to account for having apparently testified to such; I just got a gippity to write my notions up quickly”, then I care less about the words (and they become spammier).