It scares me. The writing quality of the LW feed is exceptional. The only other venues that aggregate similar quality writing are fancy magazines that gatekeep and pay authors and publish much less.
If you look at other “group blog” style venues online, LLM writing has hurt several of them substantially. Hacker News and Lobsters and numerous subreddits have been suffused with LLM-written posts that are superficially good in the LLM style (so it gets upvoted by people who don’t notice that it’s LLM-written or who decided they are willing to just trust what LLMs or unspecified centaurs say.) If you don’t find LLM output reliable then that sucks. Fortunately, the LW moderation effort is also exceptional, and aggressively hunts down LLM-written posts that skimp on quality, which seems to be preventing this from happening.
Maybe it would be OK to open the floodgates further and rely on karma-weighted voting, and on the administration’s continued adaptability, to keep quality high, but we have a good thing going here so I would be really scared to kill the golden goose.
I have no problem with moderators taking down posts they find to be low quality, I just don’t want a blanket ban on LLM output unless you put all your LLM-Assisted writing in distracting content blocks.
It scares me. The writing quality of the LW feed is exceptional. The only other venues that aggregate similar quality writing are fancy magazines that gatekeep and pay authors and publish much less.
If you look at other “group blog” style venues online, LLM writing has hurt several of them substantially. Hacker News and Lobsters and numerous subreddits have been suffused with LLM-written posts that are superficially good in the LLM style (so it gets upvoted by people who don’t notice that it’s LLM-written or who decided they are willing to just trust what LLMs or unspecified centaurs say.) If you don’t find LLM output reliable then that sucks. Fortunately, the LW moderation effort is also exceptional, and aggressively hunts down LLM-written posts that skimp on quality, which seems to be preventing this from happening.
Maybe it would be OK to open the floodgates further and rely on karma-weighted voting, and on the administration’s continued adaptability, to keep quality high, but we have a good thing going here so I would be really scared to kill the golden goose.
I have no problem with moderators taking down posts they find to be low quality, I just don’t want a blanket ban on LLM output unless you put all your LLM-Assisted writing in distracting content blocks.