YES and, also let's not use printing press, photography, word processors, spell checkers, internet and search engines because they lack human touch, make us lazy, prevent deep thinking blah blah...
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#472Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even letting the LLM “clean it up” puts its voice on your text. In general, you don’t want its voice. The associations are LinkedIn, warnings from HR and affiliate marketing hustles. It’s the modern equivalent of “talking like a used car salesman”. Not everyone will catch it but do think twice.
It's really not hard to say "make it in my voice" especially if it's an LLM with extensive memory of your writing.
> especially if it's an LLM with extensive memory of your writing.
Personally I'm not submitting enough stuff to an LLM to give it enough to go on.
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#473YES and, also let's not use printing press, photography, word processors, spell checkers, internet and search engines because they lack human touch, make us lazy, prevent deep thinking blah blah...
Just because all those other inventions didn't wreck humanity doesn't mean this one won't.
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#474I don't get all this complaining, TBH. I have been blogging for over 25 years (20+ on the same site), been using em dashes ever since I switched to a Mac (and because the Markdown parser I use converts double dashes to it, which I quite like when I'm banging out text in vim), and have made it a point of running long-form posts through an LLM asking it to critique my text for readability because I have a tendency for…
100% agree. Using it to polish your sentences or fix small grammar/syntax issues is a great use case in my opinion. I specifically ask it not to completely rewrite or change my voice. It can also double as a peer reviewer and point out potential counterarguments, so you can address them upfront.
> I specifically ask it not to completely rewrite or change my voice.
And LLMs always do what you say, absolutely always, no issues there.
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#475I think it is too late. There is non zero profit of people visiting your content, and there is close to zero cost to make it. It is the same problem with music, in fact I search youtube music only with before:2022. I recently wrote about the dead internet https://punkx.org/jackdoe/zero.txt out of frustration. I used to fight against it, I thought we should do "proof of humanity", or create rings of trust for humans,…
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#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
For transparency, what role did AI serve in drafting this comment?
AI was used to analyze logical fallacies in the original blog post. I didn’t use it to draft content—just to spot the straw man, false dilemma, and appeal-to-emotion tactics in real time. Ironically, this exact request would’ve fit the blog’s own arguments: "AI is lazy" / "AI undermines thought." But since I was using AI as a diagnostic tool (not a creative one), it doesn’t count. Self-referential irony? Maybe. But a…
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#477I don't see the objection to using LLMs to check for grammatical mistakes and spelling errors. That strikes me as a reactionary and dogmatic position, not a rational one. Anyone who has done any serious writing knows that a good editor will always find a dozen or more errors in any essay of reasonable length, and very few people are willing to pay for professional proofreading services on blog posts. On the other sid…
The fact that you were downvoted into dark grey for this post on this forum makes me very sad. I hope it's just that this article is attracting a certain kind of segment of the community.
No it's because he introduced an obscure term that came out of nowhere which is both a poor communication style and indicative of AI.
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#479I am not totally sure about this. I think that AI writing is just a progression of current trends. Many things have made writing easier and lower cost - printing press, typewriters, word processors, grammer/spell checkers, electronic distribution. This is just a continuation. It does tend to mean there is less effort to produce the output and thus there is a value degradation, but this has been true all along this te…
There's a bar somewhere to what serves meaningful benefit, surely?
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#480Hypothetically, what if the AI-generated blog post were better than what the human author of the blog would have written?
Better how?