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Were I in your shoes, I would make a point of explaining what "style transfer" is. It was one of the first things LLMs were really good at. e.g. "Write a rap b
by alphazard 1y ago
Were I in your shoes, I would make a point of explaining what "style transfer" is. It was one of the first things LLMs were really good at. e.g. "Write a rap battle between Shakespeare and Plato".
Academic prose is just style transfer. Academia filters pretty heavily for humans that can do this particular kind of style transfer well. Everyone on the college faculty will be 2 standard deviations of good at writing academic prose. That skill is no longer valuable. It is now a cheap commodity measured in flops.
The silver lining is that the content of one's writing is now paramount because the field has been leveled as far as style is concerned.
- Loughla 1y agoUpdate: I just cited 15 studies from prominent institutions indicating that these tools are ineffective and then explained that while they were not communicated with the way they want, there were 4 avenues they could've received that information if they were involved in shared governance on campus at all. I decided just to close every door for a complaint. Not sure if it landed but no one said anything.