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“It is less good at larger-scale structure, like maintaining a consistent topic or (especially) making a structured argument with sub-parts larger than a few sentences.”

Have you surfed Facebook recently? Shockingly few people are good at these either. The quality of actual human writing on social media is so bad that today’s neural networks can be of equal quality, which is very dangerous if used to make certain ideas seem more widely held than they are. After all, our morals/ethics are basically set by what we observe in the world around us (compare your view on torture, public execution, slavery, etc) to what your view would be if a baby with your exact DNA had been born in Ancient Babylon.




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