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While I find language models incredibly interesting as a technical challenge, I dread the day they actually start producing plausible, yet completely fake tweets, articles, entire books in fractions of seconds for cents to the dollar.

To me, this is a strong contender for the least morally justifiable thing to work on as a product (as opposed to research, geared towards detection/prevention of the same).

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Obviously we disagree.

Sassbook only generates completions that help the writer to express themselves. It serves to augment human capabilities and bring automation at a higher level that word-level auto-complete.

There are far more legitimate and useful outcomes when put to good use.

The narrative that spells doom around these technologies are at best marketing gimmicks.

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