AI-Generated Text is of No Use to Readers
Lies or plagiarism — take your pick
Why do we read… anything?
Any statement I read has two forms of communication. There’s the message (or literal content of the statement) and the meta-communication, or additional information you infer from the circumstances of receiving a message.
For all of history, any written word has had the meta-communication of “a human thinks this.”
A human that (I have no choice but to) share society with. This has implications to my relationships with that human, their stand-in in my social circle, or myself. That’s because humans have similarities and most traits and patterns aren’t unique.
In other words, sometimes I can relate to what other humans say, which is nice.
We don’t care about text just because it’s text
I can make a statement by mashing random phrases together — “Rocks are delicious, I swear.”
There’s nothing all that remarkable in what it literally means, but the meta-communication is “I, the human author, find rocks delicious,” implying the existence of a human who has somehow tasted (consumed?) rock and enjoyed it.
