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- Full Title:: ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Foundational models,
- URL:: https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick
- Read date:: 2025-05-23
Highlights
Given the capabilities of AI to sift through archives, detect patterns within the contents, and perhaps incrementally advance what has been said about them, the value of an academic monograph seems to fall to zero. “The making of books such as those on my shelves,” Burnett writes, “each the labor of years or decades, is quickly becoming a matter of well-designed prompts. The question is no longer whether we can write such books; they can be written endlessly, for us. The question is, do we want to read them?” (View Highlight)
This is the typical critique that an LLM will only produce average. But the thing is… even if this is true, many people don’t even reach such averages.
Whenever I see the words cascade down my computer screen, I get a sinking feeling. Do I really have to read this? I know I am unlikely to find anything truly interesting or surprising, and the ease with which the words appear really does cheapen them. (View Highlight)