John Gruber on LLMs watermarking text:
Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, et al. are “better writers” than most humans and produce better prose than the median human. But: no shit. Most people are terrible writers.
The “average person” is pretty stupid and half of all people are stupider than that. And there are many smart, interesting people who are miserable writers.
So as impressive as LLMs are, the bar is low.
As a writer who sometimes feels a bit beseiged by AI – wonders if there’s going to be much point writing any more, or helping others with writing – I found Gruber’s post quite bracing.