Technology

hi friends i hope you're well.

i worked a laborious job and experienced a phenomenon i refer to as "parasitic thought:" it is where someone will provide to you all of the information that a person would require to reach the correct conclusion, and then stare at you. they want you to crunch the info for them.

i feel like one of those parasites in my agent interactions. i know i COULD think, but you can do it too, lil buddy. go on. do it for me.

i don't know about "reasonable" or "ethical" or "polite," but in my experience: if someone just regurgitates some clank clank slop slop, it reads as hostile. "i can't be bothered to communicate with you, here, read this wall of gpt-vomit"

my instinct is to copy and paste, "LLM agent of my choice, what's this person trying to say to me?" and then skim the ai synthesized summary of the ai composed body text generated from some idiot's faint echoes of thought.

in the words of your highschool biology teacher, the human is the powerhouse of the agentic loop. in my unimportant opinion, responsible use of genai agents means that the output should be indistinguishable, if not better, than something you wrote by hand.

there are privacy implications. linguistic assessment can be used to identify you. from a privacy perspective, the internet would be preferable if everyone fed their carefully formed thoughts to an LLM and said "make this look like chatgpt 3 wrote it."