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Okay, I can understand even drawing the line at grammar correction, in that not all "correct" grammar is desirable or personal enough to convey certain ideas.
But not for translation? AI translation, in my experience, has proven to be more reliable than other forms of machine translation, and personally learning a new language every time I need to read something non-native to me isn't reasonable.
I want to believe that. When I was a student, I built a simple HTML page with a feedback form that emailed me submissions. I received exactly one message. It arrived encoded; I eagerly decoded it and found a profanity-filled rant about how terrible my site was. That taught me that kindness online isn’t the default - it’s a choice. I still aim for it, but I don’t assume it.
I personally don’t think I care if a blog post is AI generated or not. The only thing that matters to me is the content. I use ChatGPT to learn about a variety of different things, so if someone came up with an interesting set of prompts and follow ups and shared a summary of the research ChatGPT did, it could be meaningful content to me. > No, don't use it to fix your grammar, or for translations, or for whatever el…
I don't like binary takes on this. I think the best question to ask is whether you own the output of your editing process. Why does this article exist? Does it represent your unique perspective? Is this you at your best, trying to share your insights with the world? If yes, there's probably value in putting it out. I don't care if you used paper and ink, a text editor, a spell checker, or asked an LLM for help. On th…
"but I don't think I can get angry at them for producing useful content the wrong way" What about plagiarism? If a person hacks together a blog post that is arguably useful but they plagiarized half of it from another person, is that acceptable to you? Is it only acceptable if it's mechanized? One of the arguments against GenAI is that the output is basically plagiarized from other sources -- that is, of course, over…
I think we have a better shot at making that argument for music, visual art, etc. Most of it is utilitarian and most people don't care where it comes from, but we have a cultural heritage of recognizing handmade items as more valuable than the mass-produced stuff.
> Everyone wants to help each other. And people are far kinder than you may think. I want to believe that. When I was a student, I built a simple HTML page with a feedback form that emailed me submissions. I received exactly one message. It arrived encoded; I eagerly decoded it and found a profanity-filled rant about how terrible my site was. That taught me that kindness online isn’t the default - it’s a choice. I st…
1. They’re assholes.
2. They care enough to speak up, but only when the thing stops working as expected.
I think the vast majority of users/readers are good people who just don’t feel like engaging. The minority are vocal assholes.
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> I use ChatGPT to learn about a variety of different things Why do you trust the output? Chatbots are so inaccurate you surely must be going out of your way to misinform yourself.
Chatbots are more reliable than 95% of people you can ask, on a wide variety of researched topics.
AI will just make stuff up instead of saying it doesn't know, huh? Have you talked to real people recently? They do the same thing.
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Chatbots are more reliable than 95% of people you can ask, on a wide variety of researched topics.
Yeah... you're supposed to ask the 5%. If you have a habit of asking random lay persons for technical advice, I can see why an idiot chatbot would seem like an upgrade.
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No? If you ask it to proofread your stuff, any competent model just fixes your grammar without adding anything on its own. At least that's my experience. Simply don't ask for anything that involves major rewrites, and of course verify the result.
If you can’t communicate effectively in the language how are you evaluating that it doesn’t make you sound like a bot?