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When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and "blood" reside – and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences. What began as a jagged, precise Romanesque structure of stone is eroded into a polished, Baroque plastic shell: it looks "clean" to the casual eye, but its structural integrity – its "ciccia" – has been ablated to favor a hollow, frictionless aesthetic.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ah right. No, I meant it in a very lose way. That ChatGPT won't calculate elaborate maths to then do some mathematical transformations on your input text. Instead it'll do its math and then come up with an "opinion" on what it wants to rephrase. Which is going to be an "opinion" in that it isn't conclusive and in contrast to a straightforward maths to change the entropy? I mean otherwise it'd be very easy to change this? Just use a different formula?
Or phrased a bit differently: If it doesn't introduce an own opinion/judgement. What's the issue here? Just configure it to stick with the entropy amount and distribution of the input?

But I have no clue what they're talking about. Maybe there's specific text editors/correctors out there, that I'm not aware of... I'm not up to date with these things. Or they're talking about copy-pasting into ChatGPT, which I've tried.