I get LLM-generated emails full of misinformed ass-kissing from prospective students ("After reviewing some of your articles online, I have become engrossed in your research at Cornell"), and I pity these kids for their desire to discover shortcuts to some theoretical success - ThreadSky

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jrobertlennon.com • 1 day ago

I get LLM-generated emails full of misinformed ass-kissing from prospective students ("After reviewing some of your articles online, I have become engrossed in your research at Cornell"), and I pity these kids for their desire to discover shortcuts to some theoretical success

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jrobertlennon.com•1 day ago

Personable incompetence is so much more immediately appealing and interesting to an artist than slick bullshit! Every piece of children's media tells you to be yourself, and it really is the correct answer for artists, and American adulthood now rewards doing the exact opposite, and it's just sad

williefitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really feel that the only reliable way to get good at writing is to be bad at it and to keep going anyway. That's the whole game. And so if you have a machine to all the "being bad" and "keep going" parts for you, you're not being efficient — you're being a weak fucking dork! It's not for you!

williefitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

It being writing. But also idk being an interesting, well-rounded person. It's genuinely sad.

jrobertlennon.com•1 day ago

exactly, why are you doing this at all if this is the only way you're willing to do it

jrobertlennon.com•1 day ago

Anyway, yes, I know that LLM technology has value, but in the humanities, it's just stupid bullshit for fucking imbeciles. It should not come preinstalled on every computer sold to college students. In academia it should be treated like deadly viruses or fissile material, you should need a license

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