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As soon as I get the feeling that an article was written by a LLM, I stop reading. Usually it's repetitive phrasing, or grade school essay style summaries that
by jdblair 3y ago
As soon as I get the feeling that an article was written by a LLM, I stop reading. Usually it's repetitive phrasing, or grade school essay style summaries that turn me off. In short, a poor ratio of text to actual information. Even bad writing can have useful information in it, and I will plow through it. But vapid text that meanders without saying anything isn't worth anyone's time.
On the other hand, if LLM-generated text is actually good, and I can't tell... I guess then I don't care?
- wolpoli 3y agoI was always under the impression that the grade school style summaries started before LLMs. Search engines recommends that kind of writing as condition to get into the answer box. It is bad writing never the less.
- dartos 3y agoThe LLMs had to be trained on something.
- beandgaethje 3y agoI basically agree with wolpoli and I think you as well. If the content ends up good, who cares. Right now, it takes work and human collaboration to get quality content out of an llm. In the future it probably won’t.