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Laurence Tratt: LLM Inflation

It's not a long article so I suggest reading it, but the basic summary is:

Historically a lot of tech works by compressing data, transferring/storing it, and then uncompressing data.

A lot of LLM use is the opposite, you use an LLM to take your simple statement and write it in a longer more formal format. The person reading it she's it's long and wordy, and uses an LLM to summarize it. Instead of compress-decompress, we're now inflating-deflating.

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