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by srbloom 499 days ago
It was already the case that no one reads the article before commenting. Soon it will be that no one writes the article either.
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Just need AI to write the comments and the circle of life will be complete
Or we just skip the middlemen and exchange our prompts instead.

Back to the core issue - apparently few people took a long enough look at the article to notice it was co-written by AI; i.e. there were human editors in the loop. Sure, the format is a bit off-putting, but that's IMO mostly because nobody can be arsed to write like that, even if their own thesis supervisor told them they should, as proper structuring makes it easier for the reader to understand a complex topic.

Anyway, point is, I personally have no issue with people using AI to improve their texts - LLMs already are better at writing than most people anyway. Just as long as the saved effort is put into ensuring the content itself is valuable and communicated well.

Totally agree!