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> There's constant sweating over how much context to include so that the reader is well-informed vs the risk of burying the important stuff Won't help you when
by jonny_eh 3y ago
> There's constant sweating over how much context to include so that the reader is well-informed vs the risk of burying the important stuff
Won't help you when you have to edit the AI output because…
> Editing other people's stuff is even worse, because many writers aren't burdened by editorial concerns and don't bother to put in the effort to make their story coherent and interesting
So in the end, what do you gain?
- anigbrowl 3y agoChatGPT writes better and takes feedback better than many real people. I would rather fine-tune and LLM on my won writing and a collection of source documents. That way I could focus on information-gathering, write an extremely terse summary of what I consider to be the key points, and save myself many hours of misery writing boilerplate.
- LegitShady 3y agoSometimes there is value to having someone else write the first draft that you can then edit. Personally I think this is going to put a lot of journalists out of work. Many of them aren’t investigative journalists and do mostly write, and their days are numbered.