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LLM output reminds me of the essays I had to write in college. They tick all the boxes in a curriculum and demonstrate a basic grasp on syntax, but they're hot
by Kye 3y ago
LLM output reminds me of the essays I had to write in college. They tick all the boxes in a curriculum and demonstrate a basic grasp on syntax, but they're hot garbage. Your first encounter with an editor as a professional or advanced hobbyist burns that away and reveals the foundation of your true form as a writer.
LLMs are in desperate need of something that bridges that gap if they're to do anything more than help people cheat in college and annoy editors. At least for the purpose of producing writing for use. They're great when I want to scrape a web page and its links for archiving and need a quick wget command line.
- ghaff 3y agoAs an often writer, what I find LLMs useful for is creating an editable basis for subtopics/intro/explanatory text for something I'm reasonably familiar with and could write certainly with the help of some Googling around but might take me an hour between various distractions. It doesn't really work to structure an article for me or to create novel explanations/insights from e.g. data. But it does a decent job a lot of the time with respect to various necessary fleshing out.
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoNo they only write that way because of rlhf. gpt3 was extremely "creative".