Actually, That's Still SOTA: Epistemic Cryogenics and the 2023 Fossil Layer

The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 triggered the fastest technology-adoption curve in history. Within eight months, LLM-assisted content in professional writing had risen from a baseline of ~1.5% to over 15%. By mid-2023, a critical mass of practitioners had folded LLMs into their daily epistemic workflow: asking models …