Stephen Downes

David Gunkel writes, "LLMs may well signal the end of the author, but this isn't a loss to be lamented. In fact, these machines can be liberating: They free both writers and readers from the authoritarian control and influence of this thing we call the 'author.'" This may be said a bit tongue-in-cheek but I am in basic agreement with this. We pay far too much attention to who said something than to what was said. The 'death of the author' forces us to be more critical when we read, as we should have been all along. "The LLM form of artificial intelligence is disturbing and disruptive, but not because it is a deviation or exception to that condition; instead, it exposes how it was always a fiction."