NaNoGenMo this is not https://hannesbajohr.de/en/2023/09/25/new-novel-berlin-miami/
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are there any humanities scholars who actually think about the moral nightmare of modern LLMs, and don't just get really worked up about the implications for the concept of authorship
@catalina my guess is that most do not consider LLMs particularly novel or interesting, considering the forces behind them are just the boring forces of globalist neoliberal capitalism and you can’t even psychoanalyse their output
@catalina the impacts of LLMs are really the domain of the sciences: sociology, psychology, (with respect to data centers) ecology. after understanding those impacts, then you are in the domain of legal theory and policy wonkery to determine how we should respond given the evidence. the entrypoint for the humanities is really just in explaining why the appropriate legal theory and policies meant to respond to LLMs aren’t being enacted/promoted/adopted and why other ones are standing in their place. but that is pretty nascent. i think there is not much interesting to say about that yet, especially when there is a giant flashing “the answer is the stock market” sign hanging above it all
call me naive but i thought the point of generative writing (when it's not just funny markov chain stuff) was to think hard about rules that might create interesting new texts
not shoveling some novels into an LLM and spitting out some slop