at a certain point though, one wonders if you can trust people to accurately report how much is written by an LLM. (not even implying bad faith, but if you're constantly re-reading, selecting and re-combining snippets written by LLMs, it's not really "written" by LLMs in the same way that's implied).
We kinda went through this with images when Photoshop and similar tools appeared. I remember a lot of people asking questions in the late 90s/early 00s in particular about if an image were “real” or not and the distinctions between smart photography and digital compositions. Nowadays we just assume everyone is using such tools as a baseline and genuinely clever photography is now celebrated as an exception. Perhaps ditto with CGI and prop/set making in movies. Unless a director crows about how genuine the effects are, we assume CGI.
> at a certain point though, one wonders if you can trust people to accurately report how much is written by an LLM.
That's an interesting thought. I think there are ways to automate this, and some IDEs / tools track this already. I've seen posts by both Google and Amz providing percentages of "accepted" completions in their codebases, and that's probably something they track across codebases automatically.
But yeah I agree that "written by" doesn't necessarily imply "autonomously", and for the moment it's likely heavily curated by a human. And that's still ok, IMO.
