You can rewrite a sentence on every page of lord of the flies, and the same important ideas would still be there.

You can have the thoughts in a different language and the same ideas are still there.

You can tell an LLM to tweak a paragraph to better communicate a nuance until you're happy with it.

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Language isn't thought. It's extremely useful in that it lets us iterate on our thoughts. You can add in LLMs in that iteration loop.

I get you wanted to vent because the volume of slop is annoying and a lot of people are degrading their ability to think by using it poorly, but "If you’re using an LLM to spit out text for you, they’re not your thoughts" is just motivated reasoning.