This is true - but also, models are absolutely terrible at writing articles and I don’t want to read them.

The issue isn’t that a 300 bit idea is padded with 15 KB of content. You can take any human-written article and reduce it by 90% with next to no information loss. What you lose is what makes the article a compelling read instead of a fact table.

I think the reality is that we will see quality long form AI-written content at some point. It doesn’t even feel like labs are particularly interested in chasing that now; code sells way more tokens. Right now the trend is that subsequent models degrade in writing quality as long as that pulls them up on coding benchmarks.