Justin (@staygrounded): "LLMs don’t actually eliminate work, what they do is push the work onto the other person receiving the generated output. Consider that LLMs increase the work a schoolteacher has to do because it’s their job to determine if a student actually learned."

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LLMs don’t actually eliminate work, what they do is push the work onto the other person receiving the generated output. Consider that LLMs increase the work a schoolteacher has to do because it’s their job to determine if a student actually learned.

The nightmare we should be focusing on is institutional: generative AI breaks long-standing correlations that society uses to infer things like effort, sincerity, authenticity, and credibility. Once these signals erode, we don’t automatically get something better. We scramble to replace the old filters with new ones. And the transition from an old to a new way of doing things can be very costly, even if the old way of doing things wasn’t great.

Jessica Hullman

Feb 22

6:38 PM

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