How to Write Confidently with ChatGPT

We really need to disabuse ourselves — and each other — of this rather idiot “just a tool” notion around today’s LLMs and whatever tomorrow’s “AI” bring.

At no time in human history has a carpenter had a hammer that could instantaneously, unguided, and upon request knock 3,500 nails into a new load-bearing wall, based solely on a poorly-understood statistical hunch as to where each successive nail should go, and then confidently (but extremely fallibly) assure the carpenter that the wall would survive the next earthquake.

With zero understanding, whatsoever, of what a load-bearing wall, earthquake, or indeed a nail were, or any knowledge (much less culpability) for being an unreliable “tool”.

Now, the thorny question… was this written by a LLM?