Quoting Ian Bogost

GPT and other large language models are aesthetic instruments rather than epistemological ones. Imagine a weird, unholy synthesizer whose buttons sample textual information, style, and semantics. Such a thing is compelling not because it offers answers in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

— Ian Bogost

ai form generativeai gpt ian information language language models large language large language models llms sample semantics text textual