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   Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:48:44 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

   • Nate Gaylinn

   This is always the thing I think about with LLMs. By definition, they are the statistical average of every thing ever written. Using one only pushes you into being mediocre. They are homogenizing humanity; eliminating any variation in how people speak, write, and even think.

   @ngaylinn https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/116284172328690293

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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:48:40 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     This is one of the main aspects of my philosophical opposition to "generative AI" and large language models. I don't care how "useful" they might be. Making my life easier or more productive isn't a sufficient justification to submit myself to a system that fundamentally does not respect anyone's unique experience and perspective. It's a system that's biased to enforce cultural conformity and stagnation, rather than embracing diversity and evolution.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:48:42 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     All of the most important writing in history has been at least slightly difficult to read. Any truly novel idea is uncomfortable to a degree. It often requires stepping outside of the status quo in some way and challenging assumptions.

     LLMs never challenge assumptions. They are the assumptions crystalized — freezing and anchoring cultural development to one moment in time.

     Using one isn't the future. It's trapping you in the past.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:48:43 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

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     This is something I was thinking about when I learned that Cory Doctorow is an adamant user of Ollama, an open source LLM (whatever that means), to do spelling and grammar checking on his writing.

     If I were a professional writer with an established voice, I wouldn't touch anything based on an LLM for fear that it would subtly erase that voice. So slowly you wouldn't even notice, your writing will be barely distinguishable from anyone else's.

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     John (johnzajac@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:49:09 JST John

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     @malcircuit

     You know, in reading this thread I remembered reading something about how almost all of "everything ever written" [that we have access to] happened after 1990. On the internet.

     That medium famous for accuracy, rigor, and it's compassion and kindness.

     So really, when we use LLMs we're taking ~4k years of human ingenuity and language, discarding it, and replacing it with subreddits, fanfic, Facebook and 4chan.