Citation: “Theses on Large Language Models and ‘Good’ Writing” Alan Liu, 4 December 2022. doi:
The following was originally posted on Mastodon on December 3, 2022, in a series of eight posts (beginning at https://fosstodon.org/@ayliu/109451839640202878). In assembling the thread together here I have added a few links.
4 December 2022
1/8 As an English professor working in the digital humanities, my takeaway from ChatGPT (& large-language-model discourse generators in general) is that society will soon need to decide which values associated with “good” writing can and will be offloaded to LLMs so that the value added by humans can be shifted to a smaller or restructured spectrum of the functions of “good” writing for which humans can be recognized, rewarded, and held responsible.
