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Large Language Muddle | Issue 51 | n+1 | The Editors

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TO WHAT EXTENT will artificial intelligence revolutionize (derogatory) the lives of the professionally and semiprofessionally literary? Already the technology has barreled through enough creative and commercial sectors to fill a Studs Terkel oral history, threatening mass unemployment events for copywriters, translators, illustrators, sales and customer service representatives, and more. The New York Times assails readers almost daily with appalling stories of AI therapists and AI boyfriends, capturing the paradox of a technology that promises to fix broken systems even as it makes them worse. As social ties fray and mental health infrastructure deteriorates, people turn to AI for emotional support —the same AI that then urges them to kill themselves. For those of us working in reading- and writing-heavy fields — chiefly media and academia, the US’s last two eroded islands of institutional intellectual life — the boom in sophistication of large language models over the past few years h

To what extent will artificial intelligence revolutionize (derogatory) the lives of the professionally and semiprofessionally literary? Already the technology has barreled through enough creative and commercial sectors to fill a Studs Terkel oral history, threatening mass unemployment events for copywriters, translators, illustrators, sales and customer service representatives, and more. The New York Times assails readers almost daily with appalling stories of AI therapists and AI boyfriends, capturing the paradox of a technology that promises to fix broken systems even as it makes them…

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