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by afavour 82 days ago
Stop using AI to “write” slop. It’s immediately obvious from the kicker of the article. Save us all some time and just post the bullet points you gave to an LLM.
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You're right, I do use AI to help with the writing. English isn't my first language (I'm native Spanish speaker) and I use it to translate and polish my text. I wouldn't be able to participate here otherwise.

The site runs in 4 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) and covers 261 countries. Back in 2011 we relied on the machine translators available at the time, you probably remember how rough those were for the end user. AI finally lets us produce content that people can actually read in their language without those painful translation artifacts.

I apologize if that's off-putting, but the alternative would be less content for fewer people, or content full of bad translations.