Becoming unLLMable

I heard an artist by the name of Holly Herndon say that the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.

Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.

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You’ll hear people say:

“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”

But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime quality—call it taste, imagination, creativity, courage, judgment... See more

One of the litmus tests I use before releasing any work is—is this “unLLMable.”

By which I mean, does this work carry the unmistakable fingerprint of human creativity, perspective, and lived experience. Of course the irony is I use LLMs to aid me in producing the work, but as a whole AI makes average attainable by anyone, and therefore raises the ba... See more

And then I heard an artist by the name of Holly Herndon say that the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.

Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out o... See more