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Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?

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Re: Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?

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Post by drakonka »

I post a lot of notes on my personal blog. From lectures and such. I use AI to proofread the notes I took during the lecture. Other than that it outputs them in exactly the same lecture-dump format that I take them in, and then I edit them into a structure that makes more sense and add further reflections etc myself by hand.

For me, the point of taking and posting the notes is to solidify the lecture in my mind, think about it, etc. Using AI for too much of this process would defeat the purpose.

Re: Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?

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Post by krapp »

None.

Every word I write is my own, for better or worse. Every line of code, too. I started blogging again just to have a means of expression. No one reads it. No one cares. It isn't optmimized for SEO or whatever, but it's mine.

It's weird and sad that it's come to the point, after just a few years, that that's a thing. I'm just doing what I've always been doing but now people will call you a Luddite and a mental defective for not optimizing every aspect of your life around a chatbot, even if it sucks the fun out of everything.

Re: Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?

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Post by cfunderburg »

Good lord! In my actual writing - zero. I don't use it to produce words for anything. I'm working on a book though and it was useful for building a copy-editor skill and asking it things like:

Am I using british english consistently? Are there any grammatical errors? Etc.

I still feel it's important to fix whatever it finds by hand though.

Re: Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?

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Post by DataDaoDe »

cfunderburg wrote: post #28

Good lord! In my actual writing - zero. I don't use it to produce words for anything. I'm working on a book though and it was useful for building a copy-editor skill and asking it things like: Am I using british english consistently? Are there any grammatical errors? Etc. I still feel it's important to fix whatever it finds by hand though.

This. Its also great for finding out all the ways you are wrong or discovering the views, data, perspectives you are missing. I use it for this as well.
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