Awful. Reminds me of Stanislav Andreski' The Social Sciences as Sorcery. He lambasted the SS's for writing in alienating jargon in the sixties. It spread toLit Crit and this ,,(almost) meaningless guff is what we get. Plus no jokes
Going back to SF. I learned to read adult books by picking out the yellow jacketed SF Gollancz. Having no guide other than my taste in children's literature (fairy tales and SF) I found the publisher 'credentials' to be the most reliable. Sturgeon, Aldis, Simak, Heinlein, Pohl, Vonnetgut, later Bradbury, Norton (not Gollancz). None of them seemed like crap to me! But then I suppose they wouldn't even if done were?
I also got a shock when I tried making a transcript from a French announcer at the camargue bull races. The AI decided that what it was hearing was an announcer at some event in Canada (we were in Nîmes). My new found appetite for Turboscribe took a hammering.
It's the beginning and end of a paragraph with the middle section of 50+ words between "tight and loose" and "what she calls" chopped out.
So you know also who or what wrote it, which is what really shocked me
Awful. Reminds me of Stanislav Andreski' The Social Sciences as Sorcery. He lambasted the SS's for writing in alienating jargon in the sixties. It spread toLit Crit and this ,,(almost) meaningless guff is what we get. Plus no jokes
Yes, but was it written by a machine or by a human?
Humans, their words now being LLM'd, which is why the opaque jargon reappears
It was not just any human but a professor of English at Harvard, and i found her words in the New York fucking Review of Books.
So not even 'reinvented'? So what's the use of LLM if all they use it for is plagiorism? Ugh.
Going back to SF. I learned to read adult books by picking out the yellow jacketed SF Gollancz. Having no guide other than my taste in children's literature (fairy tales and SF) I found the publisher 'credentials' to be the most reliable. Sturgeon, Aldis, Simak, Heinlein, Pohl, Vonnetgut, later Bradbury, Norton (not Gollancz). None of them seemed like crap to me! But then I suppose they wouldn't even if done were?
I also got a shock when I tried making a transcript from a French announcer at the camargue bull races. The AI decided that what it was hearing was an announcer at some event in Canada (we were in Nîmes). My new found appetite for Turboscribe took a hammering.