alt Hacker NewsSeems AI has made it cheap to produce information but now you have to spend more time parsing the information. And it’s now the less competent/useful people spending less time producing more information with the more useful people spending more of their valuable time parsing that information. This is why I’m skeptical of LLMs ever becoming a net benefit in most organizations.
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LLMs are Brandolini's Law taken to an entirely different plane of existence.
Calling it “information“is generous.
You don't parse the information. You paste it back to AI to get the bullet points the first person put it.
Well, you can use LLMs to parse LLM-generated slop. They make nice summaries. I have taken this approach to people who send me obviously generated LLM text; I simply run it through an LLM, paste the summary, and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?" and then I ask the for their original prompt.
Intellectual denial of service