@cgruenloh Perfectly put. Thank you Christiane!
@cgruenloh I've now read the whole piece. One of the best texts on AI, and modern life, I have ever read. Just beautiful. i am so grateful to have read it. 🙏
"I’d go even further and say that I doubt whether I could have gotten this with any level of prompt engineering, because I only fully figured out what I was going to say, myself, by trying to write the thing in the first place. I had the basic idea before I began writing, but the refinement of the idea – the details that make the essay work – came only by thinking a lot about the meaning I was trying to convey as I wrote it."
"When people say things like this – or share an AI-generated creation with me expecting me to engage with the “meaning” of the piece – I feel similarly to how I’d feel if somebody wanted me to treat a dead person like a live one. That thing they’re shoving in my face might have the surface form of something that matters, but it no more contains meaning than a corpse contains the essence of a person. And I find it gross and disturbing to be asked to act as if I believe otherwise."