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by finnh 502 days ago
> To be clear, I fault no one for augmenting their writing with LLMs. I do it. A lot now. It’s a great breaker of writers block. But I really do judge those who copy/paste directly from an LLM into a human-space text arena. Sure, take sentences – even proto-paragraphs – if they AI came up with something great.

I guess the sloppy writing ("I do it. A lot now" and "if they AI came up with") made me stop reading early, but: is this part of some big reveal? Sloppy grammar as a sign of not-AI? But it's still slop.
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sothatsit 501 days ago
There’s a very big distinction between getting help from a friend, and plagiarising your friend’s work.

Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly. Are you also going to dismiss mathematicians who use logic software to help them?

Many writers are using LLMs in just the same way.

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finnh 501 days ago
> Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly

That's not what I was saying. I was expressing surprise at the lack of spell- or grammar-check in a blog post about detecting slop. I think an AI would generate better text than that of the post, and I'm wondering if the errors are purposeful signifiers of "hey this was a human writing. this busted sentence"

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