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I'd love to see numbers on what percentage of ChatGPT writing is for BS that the prompter doesn't actually care about -- they only have to be able to say they did it.

Examples: homework, corporate busywork.

I'd also like to see numbers on writing with ChatGPT that the prompter does care about a bit, but that is effectively worthless BS, especially if generated by LLM, and just makes more piles of garbage for someone else.

Examples: advertising, relationship management, "content" for selling ads or SEO.



I don’t know what the numbers are right now, but I will eat my own hat if the categories you mention are not the majority once we see widespread adoption.

Everything from email to blogs to podcasts to even discussion forums turned into content mill venues of spam. Any new type of digital medium should absolutely be aware of human incentives, because your intentions don’t matter. People have very limited intuition about game theory type of things, even the smart ones who want to build cool shit.




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