(AI researcher): so yeah, that’s pretraining
(Me): what comes after pretraining?
(AI researcher): posttraining, of course
(Me): wait, when do we train?
(AI researcher): pfffFfFFFt when do we train? what? HEY BILL! HE JUST ASKED WHEN DO WE TRAIN?
(Bill): wHEn do We tRAiN!??
asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive.
this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important.
so: not paying that cost is telling