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by nilirl 380 days ago
Conflicted. Useful post, nice bits of insight.

But I feel emotionally conflicted because of how different it is from how I write.

And I have a suspicion that I need to get over it.

This is faster, produces something of value, and has a small chance of catching errors/bias in thinking. It's the same flow I use while writing code.

Writing from scratch now feels like those cooking videos where people make all the ingredients from scratch: rewarding but also maybe a tiny bit self-indulgent.

This feels like the 21st century: You bring the skills, the model brings the words.
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jackstraw14 380 days ago
The link in OP was from April 29th, here is the author's most recent post almost a month later: https://fullydoxxed.com/fuck-chat-gpt-really-is-ruining-writ...
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cnunciato 379 days ago
> It’s a linguistic uncanny valley, close enough to human to be recognizable, but different enough to be repulsive.

I love this. It's exactly how I feel when I read AI-generated content. A little bit sick, not really sure why.

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nilirl 380 days ago
No, passing an inverse-turing test while writing can't be the goal.

The onus is on the reader to accept an argument; irrespective of source.

Writing, of any sort, can no longer be used as proof of 'written entirely by human'.

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roxolotl 380 days ago
That’s not quite what I get from this piece. I read it more as saying that the author uses the LLM to clarify their thoughts and maybe even suggest topics and they wordsmith the output of the model. It even ends with suggesting you write your own conclusion. Which personally I think is much more sustainable than letting the model bring the words.
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nilirl 380 days ago
My last comment was not specific to this post; it's a comment in general.

Composition skills are no longer a barrier to useful writing. If you have a sense of an idea and try a lot with an LLM, you can arrive at something useful and readable.

Which is a positive.

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roxolotl 380 days ago
Yea I don’t think I entirely agree. Yes the barrier to is lowered but you still need to know what good writing looks like to produce good writing even when aided.
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