Lessons in incomprehension

Jason Kratz wrote a rebuttal to my arguments against the precedent set by Aaron Parecki’s decision to use AI in his work on the IndieWeb and his method of defending it. It is a poor rebuttal for cherry-picking phrases, using strawman arguments, and labelling rather than participating in a discourse. Jason finds what I have written ‘mind-boggling’, ‘fucking ridiculous’ and ‘disgusting’, but I will not address these because they are not arguments. Much of Jason’s complaint is about one paragraph that I explicitly invited readers to skip. Nevertheless, since he brought it up, I will address it. Jason says— What I find amusing in all of this “human” discussion is that humans sometimes have failings that would preclude many from doing any of this work and LLMs open up a world to people who otherwise couldn’t contribute. Belvadi notes “I cannot help but be judgemental towards anyone who uses AI to write for them. “. [sic] Bully for him but what happens if that person is only able to write…