It will take some people’s professions. People who write click bait articles, schlock product reviews, and pulp romance novels, and the things modern Hollywood describe as scripts might be out of a job.

Quality novels, hard-hitting journalism, and innovative storytelling of all sorts is outside of the capability of LLMs and might always be. There’s a world where nearly all run-of-the-mill writing is done by LLMs, but truly original works will always be made by people.

At the end of the day, though, if a person can’t out-write an AI they might be in the wrong line of work.

That’s goddamned hilarious.

Same here, but for fiction writing.

If I get stuck in something or need to figure out a character motivation I’m like “dang, I need to take a shower about this”.

They’re like “dang, that’s a neat snake”.

Knickerbockers, fur coat, bow tie. It’s … distinctive, I’ll give him that.

Ampersand is another good example. “&” was considered the last letter of the alphabet for a while. Schoolchildren would recite the alphabet and finish it with the phrase “and, per se and” (“and, meaning and”).

The words got mashed together over time and the word “ampersand” was born.

I don’t know for sure, but I believe it’s a context issue.

There’s nothing wrong with discussing the size and consistency of my bowel movements with my doctor, but it’s probably not OK for me to do that with a stranger on the bus.

I did say “within” 24 hours.

I’ll have one delivered to you within 24 hours. Air mail.

Only at step 3 do we become Saddam Hussein.

Typically it says “cellulose”.

https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/11/brief-history-wood-pulp-food/#:~:text=Sawdust usually contains about 40,more regular but that's it.

There’s a little of both in play here.

First, the whole black and white part of the illustration is a neck flap that may or may not have existed. It makes the neck look super thick, but it was just the artist’s interpretation.

Second, penguins. Pterosaurs have big, hollow heads and skeletons that look like they should have flown. The same can be said of penguins.