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The link works for me, thanks! > When ChatGPT came out, many people deemed it a perfect plagiarism tool. “AI seems almost built for cheating,” Ethan Mollick, a
by yawnxyz 2y ago
The link works for me, thanks!
> When ChatGPT came out, many people deemed it a perfect plagiarism tool. “AI seems almost built for cheating,” Ethan Mollick, an A.I. commentator, wrote in his book
It's ironic that this article complains about GPT-generated slop, but Ethan Mollick is a Associate Professor at Wharton, not any "generic A.I. commentator."
What authors like this fail to realize that they often produce equally-generic slop as ChatGPT.
Essays are like babies: you're proud of your own, but others' (including ChatGPT's) are gross.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoI'm not totally sure but I think decisions about how to attribute a source like that are editorial and mostly out of the hands of the author. But aside from that this article is far far better than anything I have seen produced by AI? Is this just standard HN reflexive anti-middlebrow sentiment because we don't like the new yorker's style? My grandfather didn't like it either but it outlasted him and will probably outlast us as well.
- nxobject 2y agoAnd, for what it’s worth, flexibility and constantly adapting to different house styles are very much important writing skills… so I do think it’s not too relevant to think about which style is nice and which isn’t. (The hard part is getting published at all.) Perhaps one day we’ll figure out how to communicate those subtleties to a chatbot.
- yawnxyz 2y agoI like the New Yorker's (and the author's) writing style! I'm just surprised they went with "AI commentator" as almost a snide remark, which makes you think some AI hallucinated that part. But again, AI doesn't really hallucinate spite, but that's probably what this AI commentator from the New Yorker feels?
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- spondylosaurus 2y agoThe author is Cal Newport of "Deep Work" fame. Not sure if that's a point for or against the article though, lol.
- randcraw 2y agoIt should make him uniquely qualified to discuss whether writing with an LLM can ever be as immersive an experience as writing without one can be.