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One group that is likely to directly or indirectly pick up much of their formal English language writing from supposedly well formed LLM examples is people who

One group that is likely to directly or indirectly pick up much of their formal English language writing from supposedly well formed LLM examples is people who speak English as a second (or fifth) language. I wouldn't want to make too many inferences about their ability or effort from that, especially if LLM phrases become as popular amongst some ESL groups as "kindly revert back" or "do the needful"

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latexr 3y ago
Free non-LLM translation apps are plentiful, work well, and use fewer resources. I agree with your larger point, but at the same time it’s not like there isn’t choice. I also don’t mean to imply I simply ignore people who use LLMs. Rather, the information is relevant for educational purposes. As way of example: I frequent forums where I help users of a couple of systems I understand well. In the rare instances a user makes a question and a second replies with wrong information, I make a correction and take the second user’s misinterpretation into account to craft an explanation which will better realign their mental model. I may even use that as basis to improve the documentation. Everyone benefits, including those who arrive to the thread at a later date. But if the second user used an LLM, they just wasted everyone’s time and detracted value. I’ll still need to correct the information for the first user, but there’s nothing I can do to help the second one because there’s zero information regarding what they know or don’t. All the while their post contains multiple errors which will confuse anyone who arrives later, perhaps via search engine. If I can at least identify the post came from an LLM, I can inform the user of their pitfalls and don’t need to waste a bunch more of my time and sanity correcting everything wrong with the post.
jowea 3y ago
Isn't "do the needful" standard Indian English?

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latexr 3y ago

Free non-LLM translation apps are plentiful, work well, and use fewer resources. I agree with your larger point, but at the same time it’s not like there isn’t choice. I also don’t mean to imply I simply ignore people who use LLMs. Rather, the information is relevant for educational purposes. As way of example: I frequent forums where I help users of a couple of systems I understand well. In the rare instances a user makes a question and a second replies with wrong information, I make a correction and take the second user’s misinterpretation into account to craft an explanation which will better realign their mental model. I may even use that as basis to improve the documentation. Everyone benefits, including those who arrive to the thread at a later date. But if the second user used an LLM, they just wasted everyone’s time and detracted value. I’ll still need to correct the information for the first user, but there’s nothing I can do to help the second one because there’s zero information regarding what they know or don’t. All the while their post contains multiple errors which will confuse anyone who arrives later, perhaps via search engine. If I can at least identify the post came from an LLM, I can inform the user of their pitfalls and don’t need to waste a bunch more of my time and sanity correcting everything wrong with the post.

jowea 3y ago

Isn't "do the needful" standard Indian English?