How Do We Talk about LLMs?

Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought

Essays and writing on AI

I’m Tired of Talking About AI

I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

Pluralistic: Why I don’t like AI art (25 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

A law professor friend tells me that LLMs have completely transformed the way she relates to grad students and post-docs – for the worse. And no, it's not that they're cheating on their homework or using LLMs to write briefs full of hallucinated cases.

Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X

this is true and is a big reason why you don’t need to be a highly technical researcher to use LLMs in surprising and novel ways https://t.co/TuxNzXzToU— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 27, 2025

Artificial

An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.

Artificial

An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.

How do LLMs affect writing? Talks by visitors to the AI STORIES project | UiB

The AI STORIES project is hosting a day of research talks focused on analysing AI-generated writing, with approaches ranging from the qualitative analysis of a professor of writing to large-scale computational analysis finding that prompting an LLM to edit a text to improve its grammar leads to significiant shifts in meaning.

Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use

I made some notes on the nature of the training of LLMs, and about whether we as a society should consider the material used to train them as a fair use of that material.

How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion

Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force.

Evaluating LLMs is a minefield

Annotated talk slides

LLMs and self-referentiality

I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when y…

Artificial intelligences and human scientists exhibit...

We investigate the effectiveness of artificial intelligences (AI)-specifically large language models (LLMs)-relative to human scientists at high-level cognitive tasks in social science such as...

ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text

Will AI cause a political interregnum

Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”

Happy, those able to know the causes of things

[This is a guest post by Nestor Guillen, crossposted from his blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Keywords: LLMs, cultural tech…