The way to understand it is when you catch yourself almost falling asleep at night while reading something. You lose the ability to understand anything, even though you are still reading and the words are still English.

LLM is great at generating that sort of thing. When you lose concentration, or didn't want to pay attention, that document can be generated by LLM to fool you.

That's a lot of documents. All the powerpoints that young investment bankers and strategy consultants make. Every restaurant menu. Brochures. The middle 100 pages of a pop science book from the airport.

When it comes to writing something actually importantant, LLM can only help you a little bit. Well, it's a lot in historical context. But it can do things like bullet point ideas so you don't forget things, or move a few things around while preserving grammatical structure.

All it can do is bring you the ingredients. That's why we get these odd AI-generated articles nowadays, it's a bunch of chopped onions and tomatoes, very nicely done up but with no intention other than to trick you into thinking it's a meal.