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by 6yyyyyy 98 days ago
No AI period. As soon as you feed your writing into the slop machine it starts telling you how to make it more like slop (I know someone who's cowriting a book with ChatGPT - this is exactly the result.)

I'd rather read things with typos and bad grammar than read something copyedited by AI.
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gus_massa 97 days ago
Can I use the sugestions in Google Docs? Is that an expert system or LLM?
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jfengel 97 days ago
If the machine can predict your writing, then so can the reader. Which means the reader is getting bored.

Take the Google Docs suggestion as a sign that you shouldn't be writing that sentence at all. Back off, and find a way to tell the story in a way that every sentence provides something new, exciting, and unpredictable.

If the suggestion is better than what you were going to write, take it as a sign that you're not ready to publish. Treat it as a lesson in how to write better, then start over when you're more skilled at the craft.

Much the same applies to all LLM writing. If it can write it, it probably shouldn't be written at all. If an LLM is writing your boilerplate code, it means that there's too much boilerplate in your system. Solve that not by letting somebody else write it, but by rebuilding the system so that it doesn't require boilerplate.

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gus_massa 97 days ago
My errors are mostly missing s in verbs, like "The dog eat[s] a lot of meat." , also wrong prepositions like "I'm still thinking [in->about] the exam." and sometimes idioms. I like it [the free version?] as an advanced orthography/grammar corrector for details, not a whole rewrite.

I agree with you. I remember a recent discussion where someone "cleaned" the comment of other user using AI, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201796 the cleaned version was soulless or as the comment says wooden.

EDIT: From a recent comment by myself:

> People here is friendlier when the author is in the comment section replaying questions.

This time I notice the error on my own, but I made similar silly mistakes in the past. Google Docs may show a line with a suggestion to fix it.

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