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Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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> I choose to look at it like any other cultural communication difference There's a way to tell if this is actually the case: can you find the members of this culture that like getting slopgrenaded? A communication culture needs both speakers and listeners. I see the speakers, I have yet to see the listeners. I could just be missing them though. In the case that the listeners are greatly outnumbered by the speakers w…

Anecdotally, LLMs are apparently good enough at writing to routinely make the front page of Hacker News. Twitter has a plague of bot comments. From all these up-votes, we can infer there is an audience and this is good faith. Partly, I admit, I just tend to be wary of shame as a tool. "Someone said something I dislike" has a long history of being abused. Conversely, even something like your gum example, one can point…

And the "We should shame them!" crowd has a long standing inability to tell fiction and facts apart, even if previously informed. There was this example of a polish writer who killed one of his characters off- and the people held mournings and church services for her.

If you take the scripture for holy, then the holy scripture talking back to you making you a prophet, will condemn other fiction as blasphemy.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Anecdotally, LLMs are apparently good enough at writing to routinely make the front page of Hacker News. Twitter has a plague of bot comments. From all these up-votes, we can infer there is an audience and this is good faith. Partly, I admit, I just tend to be wary of shame as a tool. "Someone said something I dislike" has a long history of being abused. Conversely, even something like your gum example, one can point…

And the "We should shame them!" crowd has a long standing inability to tell fiction and facts apart, even if previously informed. There was this example of a polish writer who killed one of his characters off- and the people held mournings and church services for her. If you take the scripture for holy, then the holy scripture talking back to you making you a prophet, will condemn other fiction as blasphemy.

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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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> Nobody writes essays in Slack I 100% write long texts in Slack. I always try to provide as much context as possible when reaching out to someone with a question or request.

Do you start every response off with "that is a great question"? I don't know any human who does. "that is a great question" is reserved either for really hard questions, or sarcasm. The majority of questions are not great, they are just things the asker needs a simple answer.

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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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I'd prefer just "I don't know." I can ask Claude on my own.

No. "I don't know" may be interpreted as "I don't care". Adding additional info may be a way to say "I do care". Similar to sometimes we say "I don't know, but I googled it, and I got this". Also, LLM's answers can be good if the prompts are good, so can still be helpful.

There is whole range of requests or questions that I don’t care but I don’t want to reply „I don’t care” especially when someone asks for something easily googlable/llmable.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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The distinction that matters isn't AI or no AI — it's whether your thinking went through the response before it reached someone else. I'm building an app almost entirely with AI assistance as a non-technical founder. Half the time it leads me confidently down the wrong path and I spend my time course-correcting back to my original vision. I think that's the new way of working. I don't need to do the act of writing, but I do need to keep the assistant on track to where I want the project to go. The moment you remove that step by just pasting output directly, you've outsourced your judgment, not just your typing and you'll get coherent slop.
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