# Clayton Ramsey - I'd Rather Read the Prompt (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.svg) ## Highlights - When copying another person’s words, one doesn’t communicate their own original thoughts, but at least they are communicating a human’s thoughts. A language model, by construction, has no original thoughts of its own; publishing its output is a pointless exercise. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jv25fwbvc5p3sfzz0s13j10k)) ^888673579 - Every single time, the model obscures the original meaning and adds layers of superfluous nonsense to even the simplest of ideas. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jv25grmgn7mg9xykdcedssxp)) ^888673616