[kube-system]

That’s also one of its greatest strengths. It’s excellent for taking sloppily written human text and giving it a little polish in voice and consistency. If you use a light touch you can keep it from taking away too much humanity from the original.

[steve1977]

But the result is as nice to read as a face filled with filler and botox is to look at.

[kube-system]

You get that effect when LLMs write whole sentences or paragraphs. Editing human prose for minor consistency improvements doesn’t do that unless you let it run wild and replace >20% of your text.

Slop is a misapplication issue. Just because today’s models can pump out a lot of text doesn’t mean they’re good for it. And just because letting them run wild produces slop, doesn’t mean they don’t work well for appropriately scoped applications.