There are multiple aspects I appreciate about things. For one, I appreciate how things appear. I might enjoy the composition, color, sentence structure, or texture of a thing.
But the appearance of a thing alone is rarely enough for me to really enjoy it. Many of the things I decided to furnish my apartment with are not only chosen for their appearance. My carpet is also the carpet that I grew up walking on at my grandparents' house. The Picasso-esque oil painting on my wall is also a reminder of the seller's story and my time in Vietnam. My teapot was sculpted by my sister's classmate in his parents' backyard.
The same goes for what I engage with online. Of course I get excited about an interesting story, but usually not without it's context. Paul Coldren's blog about his time contracting in Antarctica is interesting because it's about freaking Antarctica, sure, but it is especially interesting because it enables me to follow along a living, breathing human being. An LLM is obviously not drawing from it's own lived experience. It doesn't get excited, and so I can't get excited with it. Writing is not only content, it is a journey through the authors mind. With generated writing, there are no shoes I can put myself in. There is no effort that went into it's creation, just electricity.This is why I don't use LLMs for anything I want others to engage with. I do use it for code auto-completion in my IDE. If I ever use it for anything public facing, I will list it below.
Thinking About Photographing Strangers - For this paragraph, I used GPT 4o's deep research function to help find primary sources about Dani traditions.