Tudor Black Teeth of LLM Slop
There's a story about rotten-looking teeth in Tudor England. The aristocrats could afford the expensive ingredient sugar and ate a lot of it. Probably, they didn't know about tooth decay because of sugar. And being an aristocrat at that time meant you wouldn't care less about your looks. I imagine their social status overpowered even obvious flaws, such as rotten or non-existent teeth, and facial changes related to that.
Then, rotten teeth became a fashion trend: If the queen has rotten teeth, let's make my teeth look rotten too, to get some of that fancy aura.
When I was young, I remember cigarette advertisements. People in the images seemed super-cool. Of course, the cool people in Hollywood movies also smoked. No wonder teenagers wanted to emulate the characters they admired. In my school, the cool kids didn't bring a lunchbox for the break. They left the school area, smoked cigarettes, and drank coffee instead. Smoking was a fashion trend. I remember some people were actually cool, but the majority just tried to buy into the coolness. At last, they got degraded teeth.
At the end of 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and since then, grammatically correct and verbose text has become a commodity. If everyone can now churn out polished texts, there's no value in that itself anymore. I see quite a few texts that seem AI-generated, and somehow I'm annoyed by that. I think those who publish AI-generated texts don't care about their own ideas but rather about producing texts. If this happens too much, people will start associating grammatically correct and verbose texts with being uninteresting and inauthentic. Maybe we'll see sloppily written texts (not ideas) become a kind of fashion trend.