[gchamonlive]

All of a sudden everybody is a writing style critic. The only question that is pertinent is if the message of the post is relevant.

Think about it. You wouldn't give someone crap for writing in broken English because there are many really smart people that are non English speakers. So why are we giving crap for people using AI to write better posts? If the idea is relevant, what's the point in criticizing the style?

A fair question would be "is the idea in the post actually the writer's or was it entirely done by AI"? However how can one actually tell if the idea, not the style is original? You can't. So it's pointless to be angry about style. Focus on the message.

[coffeefirst]

No. I have a lot of respect for people who write in a second language. You can often tell because the content is thoughtful and some of the word choices or grammar is quirky.

This is a bozo who prompted the machine for a viral essay. He did not write anything. He does not know anything.

[gchamonlive]

Do you know this for a fact? How? Honest question.

[coffeefirst]

If I’m wrong I’ll eat my hat.

But I’ve spent enough time with these tools and coaching people on writing over the years to recognize the extremely low signal to noise ratio and prompted style instructions. I’m equally confident the gentleman in my spam folder is not a Nigerian prince.

[gchamonlive]

Understood

[Izkata]

> So why are we giving crap for people using AI to write better posts?

Pretty sure the point is it's making the post worse, not better.

[gchamonlive]

Not talking about this post anymore, because it being flagged is more reason it's just click bait.

But in all honesty, for some it's extremely hard to write concisely in English. Maybe what you call worse is actually better in comparison to what the person could write by himself, insights notwithstanding.

[fwip]

"is the idea in the post actually the writer's or was it entirely done by AI"

Look. If you don't want your readers to worry that your hard-written article is AI slop - just don't run it through the slopifier. Or at the very least, spend 5 minutes tweaking the output.

If you can't be assed to do that, then it's very likely that you don't have valuable insights to share.