[pinkgolem]

I mean, i struggle with spelling/wording and ask the LLM to proofread a lot.

I often send out the LLM version, but still check if it contains the original thoughts correctly.

It's not a bad way to extend your vocabulary & catch spelling mistakes

[stingraycharles]

> I often send out the LLM version, but still check if it contains the original thoughts correctly.

Please don’t do this. You probably aren’t aware of how bad this can land. It’s not just about containing your original thoughts, it’s about the verbosity, repetitiveness, and absurdity of it all.

Grammarly is a much better tool for these kinds of purposes, and it actually guides and teaches you to improve your writing along the way.

[__mharrison__]

The irony that this response has a very common LLMism...

[adastra22]

Grammarly the honeypot?

[stingraycharles]

You seem to be referring to something specific I’m not aware of, could you elaborate?

A Google search didn’t reveal anything specific other than them using famous author names for expert review.

[adastra22]

It's the nature of the product itself. It's a key logger software. That's literally what it does -- take every input on your computer and route it to their servers.

[stingraycharles]

Right, I was just confused by your use of the word honeypot.

“keylogger mode” is optional, and to my understanding, you always see a visual indicator in the text area.

it doesn’t take every input as far as I know, and security firms don’t consider it a threat.

but point taken, it’s not for people with privacy concerns.

[adastra22]

It installs itself as an accessibility tool, which requires special user permissions. With these permissions, it sees literally every keystroke you make (except, in some cases on some OSs, system password prompts). The visual indicator is just their UI.

Regarding "honeypot" -- that's also what a honeypot is. They provide a service you want, then collect data. We have to take their word that they're only using this data to train their AI (which, btw, they are upfront about -- they log everything and feed it into their training. it's in their TOS).

[anon84873628]

Verbosity and repetitiveness? Which tools are you using?

Tell it that you want a succinct professional email and it will do that. Give it examples of your own writing and it will match that style. If there's something you don't like, tell it to rewrite the part differently.

Theses are literally the things language models are best at.

[stingraycharles]

> Tell it that you want a succinct professional email and it will do that. Give it examples of your own writing and it will match that style.

This is not what the parent I replied to indicated, nor what people usually do.

[anon84873628]

There's no reason to assume that their output is as bad as whatever you have come to expect.

[mkl]

You don't need a fake extended vocabulary. Just communicate directly and honestly. Underlining spelling errors as you type has been a standard feature of email software for nearly three decades.

[pinkgolem]

Nah man, it has been career limiting before and I have gotten bad feedback for it my whole life...

I keep the LLM close to the original text content wise, but feedback was/is fantastic

[teeray]

> I often send out the LLM version

The problem is that you lose your voice and adopt one that your audience knows all too well (and knows it isn’t yours). It makes your audience feel like you aren’t listening to them (even though you are!), because they feel like they’re talking to an LLM.

[unD]

I'm pretty sure most non-native speakers (one here) do the same. I'm not talking about three-paragraph-long Slack thread, but even a single message where I feel otherwise unable to convey what I need _the way_ I want.