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Yeah, I also kind of wish he published the blog in his own words instead of using what seems to be LLM polishing. It seems ironically like the same defensivenes

Yeah, I also kind of wish he published the blog in his own words instead of using what seems to be LLM polishing. It seems ironically like the same defensiveness and lack of transparency he wants to avoid?

JohnBooty 1y ago
I don't mind AI polishing any more than I mind somebody using a spellchecker. The article overwhelmingly reads like a (painfully) honest and personal account of what he's going through, it's not AI slop.
- nemomarx 1y ago
  It's definitely not slop, but there's something kind of sad about a very personal and emotional account needing to be fed through the corpo speak grammar checker? At least in my opinion. It feels like if a friend wanted to vent to me on discord but didn't trust me enough to do it without editing their post for hours, or something.
  - erikerikson 1y ago
    Hah. Indeed and also this person was posting to the, on average, uncharitable Internet.
  - JohnBooty 1y ago
    There's a very large range of situations (many highly personal) for which I'd consider an AI writing assist to be super valid. They may have dyslexia. English may not be their first language. They may have brilliant ideas but otherwise struggle with writing. They may simply be highly invested in making sure they are expressing themselves clearly. They may be too physically or mentally tired to polish their writing "manually." They may be under unfortunate time constraints. Maybe the guy has kids to take care of, or just needed to finish his blog post by a certain time so he could get a good night's sleep. The list of possible reasons is so vast and varied that I coalesce this down into essentially "I don't care and I don't need to know. As long as the end result is an honest representation of the author's intent, i.e. is not AI slop" It feels like if a friend wanted to vent to me on discord but didn't trust me enough to do it without editing their post for hours, or something. I'm being pedantic but as a good comparison. A friend DM'ing you is explicitly asking you to spend your time reading the message. Additionally you and your friend have preexisting context and rapport. If they don't express themselves in anal-retentive detail clearly in the DM, you can fill in the gaps with your shared context, a luxury that a person writing for the public doesn't have. (again, pedantic on my part, I know!)
  - ModernMech 1y ago
    > there's something kind of sad about a very personal and emotional account needing to be fed through the corpo speak grammar checker? There is! But it of course follows the content, which is about how the author's emotions have caused him professional harm. Someone who's been through that would be shy about sharing their raw words.
ModernMech 1y ago
As someone who is autistic and bipolar, I've been told my words often come across as unnecessarily aggressive even though I mean them in a neutral way, so I sometimes use LLMs to try and mediate my tone when I'm talking to an unknown audience. I suspect the author has been told he is acerbic and might be self-conscious of using his own words.
- nemomarx 1y ago
  I would definitely believe that, yeah. I just think that reflects something sad about the culture we're in, especially in an essay about struggling with transparency. I would like to get more of a sense of his emotions and writing style, but maybe that would have consequences in a public post and he's more guarded about that.

JohnBooty 1y ago

I don't mind AI polishing any more than I mind somebody using a spellchecker. The article overwhelmingly reads like a (painfully) honest and personal account of what he's going through, it's not AI slop.

nemomarx 1y ago
It's definitely not slop, but there's something kind of sad about a very personal and emotional account needing to be fed through the corpo speak grammar checker? At least in my opinion. It feels like if a friend wanted to vent to me on discord but didn't trust me enough to do it without editing their post for hours, or something.
- erikerikson 1y ago
  Hah. Indeed and also this person was posting to the, on average, uncharitable Internet.
- JohnBooty 1y ago
  There's a very large range of situations (many highly personal) for which I'd consider an AI writing assist to be super valid. They may have dyslexia. English may not be their first language. They may have brilliant ideas but otherwise struggle with writing. They may simply be highly invested in making sure they are expressing themselves clearly. They may be too physically or mentally tired to polish their writing "manually." They may be under unfortunate time constraints. Maybe the guy has kids to take care of, or just needed to finish his blog post by a certain time so he could get a good night's sleep. The list of possible reasons is so vast and varied that I coalesce this down into essentially "I don't care and I don't need to know. As long as the end result is an honest representation of the author's intent, i.e. is not AI slop" It feels like if a friend wanted to vent to me on discord but didn't trust me enough to do it without editing their post for hours, or something. I'm being pedantic but as a good comparison. A friend DM'ing you is explicitly asking you to spend your time reading the message. Additionally you and your friend have preexisting context and rapport. If they don't express themselves in anal-retentive detail clearly in the DM, you can fill in the gaps with your shared context, a luxury that a person writing for the public doesn't have. (again, pedantic on my part, I know!)
- ModernMech 1y ago
  > there's something kind of sad about a very personal and emotional account needing to be fed through the corpo speak grammar checker? There is! But it of course follows the content, which is about how the author's emotions have caused him professional harm. Someone who's been through that would be shy about sharing their raw words.

ModernMech 1y ago

As someone who is autistic and bipolar, I've been told my words often come across as unnecessarily aggressive even though I mean them in a neutral way, so I sometimes use LLMs to try and mediate my tone when I'm talking to an unknown audience. I suspect the author has been told he is acerbic and might be self-conscious of using his own words.

nemomarx 1y ago
I would definitely believe that, yeah. I just think that reflects something sad about the culture we're in, especially in an essay about struggling with transparency. I would like to get more of a sense of his emotions and writing style, but maybe that would have consequences in a public post and he's more guarded about that.