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points by sick_of_slop 17 hours ago | 0 comments

You can’t unslop A.I. prose. Once it’s written, the content is poisoned.

“Sure there was a turd in the punch bowl but I did my best to remove it, so you should be able to drink it.”

Nope.

And the technical parts are what matter, saying you did that with A.I. tells me “I don’t care about this part” so what the heck are we even doing here?

[–] rowanG077 15 hours ago

Interesting for me it's the opposite. I care about this so I let AI do it since LLM are better writers than the majority of people. I'm not so arrogant to think I'm a writer of that caliber.

[–] amenhotep 14 hours ago

You are. I promise you. Almost every single person is a better writer than an LLM. You're wilfully sabotaging yourself.

[–] InsideOutSanta 13 hours ago

Maybe LLMs are better writers than the majority of people, but that's only because the majority of people just don't write. If you have any level of competency, you are a better writer than an LLM, because good writing requires empathy. It required thinking about what the audience knows, what they want to know, what kind of writing they are comfortable with, and so on.

LLMs fail at those things.

[–] asdff 14 hours ago

LLM are terrible writers though. Worse than most humans unless they have some mental disability.