This seems exactly correct. I make computational art, and I write about the same technical topics that LLMs aren’t terrible at. But I genuinely don’t think I’m losing my audience to the latest gpt model. It’s not my skill as a coder or an artist that makes people care about my work, it’s the connection between the author and the audience that makes it work. I’m not stackoverflow, I’m a human being who shows herself in her work
@djnavarro exactly. I don’t read first and foremost for the beauty and flow of prose. I wanna know the author’s view; their opinion on the matter at hand.
LLMs are empirically devoid of any opinion, therefore I am thoroughly uninterested in anything an LLM has to say.