The stories we tell

TL;DR Large Language Model (LLM) based Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be great at cranking out plausible sentences. But stringing those sentences together to form some kind of narrative doesn’t get a good story. That’s a problem, and an opportunity; because humans run on stories, and (for now at least) it seems that we still need humans to craft good stories. Accelerating the epistemic crisis I’m pretty sure we were in an epistemic crisis before LLM based AI came along, which is how we got filter failure at the outrage factory etc. But the torrent of slop sure isn’t helping. Search results are being poisoned, but that hardly matters, because search was already being enshittified; and now search is trumped by hallucinatory AI summaries[1]. But… there’s always an opportunity to do better. It’s becoming clear that AI is atrocious at telling good stories, which makes it clear where humans can add value. The ‘triple threat’ data scientist In my last job I talked about data scientists…