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20d ago
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Words matter damnit fc883733a729
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Context & explanation reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
“Here's what I wrote inspired by that after-the-show conversation: medium.com/whither-news...” evidence ↗
4 experts
3 communities
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Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique
1 expertRisks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I genuinely have no idea what Jeff Jarvis is arguing here. Is he arguing for the right to select the words we use? Because we do not select individual words when using an LLM. Is he concerned about Claude's freedom of expression? Because that might be even …”
Context & explanation
1 expertBackground, chronology and why it matters.
“Here's what I wrote inspired by that after-the-show conversation: medium.com/whither-news...”
3 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: I genuinely have no idea what Jeff Jarvis is arguing here. Is he arguing for the right to select the words we use? Because we do not select individual words when using an LLM. Is he concerned about…
Benjamin Riley: Great example of how not understanding how these things work can lead to a presumably well-intentioned but totally misguided perspective.
Eryk Salvaggio: My sense is that this might be about the devaluing of the craft of writing and word choice, but the selection criteria of words for a language model is already doing that: language already shows up…
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