I saw a post yesterday (or was it today? the days have been blurring together for almost two weeks now, so who knows) that speculated that humans will start to emulate the writing of Claude, which is to say that humans will produce, in addition to human slop, stuff that sounds and reads like LLM slop.

Even if you don’t use LLMs to write your prose, you’re eventually going to start talking like Claude anyway just because that style will be so universally employed

hodlbod

I completely disagree.

As someone who is increasingly allergic to slop I hope (and thus also predict, to some degree) that the opposite will happen. A counter-movement will form. A counter-movement that will reject slop. A counter-movement that will embrace the imperfect writing of humans, that will develop a taste for style, and tone, and curation, and so on and so forth. Just like regenerative agriculture, organic farming, and the slow food movement represents a counter-culture to fast-food, home-grown content (or whatever we will call it) will spring forth as the LLM pendulum swings back to the other side.

I’m glad to see that I’m not alone in this. Even in my tiny corner of the internet there’s voices that express a similar view, one of which I saw just now:

sick and tired of the uniform, vacuous, distasteful, unoriginal prose all over the place. like Anor Londo it appears grandiose, beautiful and polished but it’s a lie, a dead and hollow façade.

language evolves through people using it and interacting with each other. new words are invented, old rules are changed or subverted, we amplify our conceptual repertoire and update our model of the world by speaking and writing. the word virus affects how we perceive reality and shapes it to some extent.

now an LLM writes your poasts, which is fucking obvious and lame. an LLM writes the software and the documentation, which is now unbearable to read for a human. people communicate via LLM produced text, they generate slop and others use their LLMs to transform that slop into something inteligible (a slop they are comfortable reading).

if language is sterile, human creativity and thinking can stall and degrade. the highly improbable and ground breaking thinking barely gets explored.

fuck this dystopia, i prefer an imperfect and genuine human “voice” over a perfect and hollow LLM garrulous slop. we must not delegate our writing and thinking to a cold, alien, probabilistic engine. writing IS thinking.

verbiricha

Yes.

Writing is thinking.

Fuck this dystopia.