da un'email pubblicata in mailing list Humanist, Smithers, Tim. «[Humanist] 39.21: repetition vs intelligence», maggio 2025. https://dhhumanist.org/volume/39/21/.
Text is the marks left by some human writing, and, now-a-days, often printed or screen rendered using suitable well designed font(s) and typographical designs. Text is not the same as words. The words involved were formed in the head of the author and remain there. Writing words to say something involves encoding the chosen words in some shared alphabet and shared spelling and grammar. This results in the marks we call text. Text is thus a sequence of signs, and it must be read, by, of course, something that can read these signs, to re-form the words of the author. These again formed words are formed in the reader's head, they are not found and somehow picked out of the text; the signs are not the words, they are signs for words. This notion of "picking up the words" is not what reading is, though this is how it might seem to us, and how we often talk about it being. This confusion -- the text is the words -- was harmless when we [just about] only had text from human writing, but now we have, thanks to things like ChatGPT, automated text generation systems, and lots of text which is not the result of any kind of writing. Just because we can read this automatically generated text, and form words in our heads from this reading, words which mean something to us, and thus give us the impression that the text is about something, does not mean, nor necessarily make, the generator of this text a writer. To be a writer requires the author to be a reader of the written text, and, or course, lots of other text. And it requires the writer to have a mind in which they form words to say something with. ChatGPT, and other Generative AI systems like it, do not read anything. ChatGPT does no reading of your [so called] prompt. The text you make by writing your prompt is simply chopped into a sequence of text tokens which are, in turn, used to build a sequence of vector encodings, together with quite a lot of other stuff added to your prompt text by the always hidden prompt processing ChatGPT has to do. (ChatGPT is not just an LLM, it has plenty of other machinery needed to make it do what it does.) ma tutto il msg merita una lettura, secondo me Maurizio
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