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I would rate this post highly. It’s clearly written, pragmatic, accessible, and seemed useful so I’d recommend reading it. Lately I find myself asking, is the
by WhitneyLand 4y ago
I would rate this post highly. It’s clearly written, pragmatic, accessible, and seemed useful so I’d recommend reading it.
Lately I find myself asking, is the article “better” than what AI could produce?
In this case, the article intuitively seems a grade above similar GPT 3.5 output.
But why so? Is it just my opinion it’s better?
How should “better” be defined? Readability, persuasion, effectiveness as a call to action? Truthfulness seems like it’s own can of worms.
Are there any objective measures of AI vs human output quality to date? Which human? Yikes a new can of worms…
Subjectively, it sometimes seems like the more I read known AI content the more I get a feel for its style. Oops - forgot we’re dealing with a master style chameleon. I think it’s more likely this perception is wrong and it’s easy to overestimate one’s ability to discern generated content.
Apologies for the tangent. I hope it doesn’t detract too much from the more important point that the post is good and I’ve found some of the techniques very helpful.
- leobg 4y agoI think pg tweeted something about this a few days ago. Essentially: if you intend to write about something, first let GPT write it. Then you know what is so obvious about your topic that you don’t need to mention it in your article. The idea being that GPT will rarely output anything surprising, unusual or counter-intuitive.
- prashantsengar 4y agoAs someone who keeps feeling if his writing is "good enough", your comment makes me feel really good. Thanks a lot for writing this :) I was hesitating in posting it to HN but now I am glad I did.