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It is a question of degree. If one was to give the tool a complete written document and ask it to specifically correct spelling and grammatical mistakes along
by shagie 3y ago
It is a question of degree.
If one was to give the tool a complete written document and ask it to specifically correct spelling and grammatical mistakes along with identifying any sentences which are unclear... and leave the agency of fixing the issues on the researcher? No problem at all.
If one was to give the tool a complete written document and ask it to fix everything and then publish that, then you get into problems where there has been no check to make sure that the AI (or clerical staff) has not made any mistakes.
If one was to give an outline to the AI and some results and ask it to write the paper that has these findings... then there's a problem.
I would personally encourage people to do the first - even if a native speaker (I do it with some things that I've written).
Beyond that - having an AI generate content rather than identify issues or not take back the agency of fixing the issues back from the AI, that is where problems lie.
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For some of my previous thoughts on this in the context of using a LLM for assistance in writing papers for school - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110737 and https://chat.openai.com/share/d891f9ac-923b-47a8-8de9-ab73017ba96b https://chat.openai.com/share/d891f9ac-923b-47a8-8de9-ab7301...