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If your mission is serious and you're seriously asking people to donate €80,000, surely you could be bothered to take it seriously enough to write the appeal fo
by anonymous908213 10mo ago
If your mission is serious and you're seriously asking people to donate €80,000, surely you could be bothered to take it seriously enough to write the appeal for funding yourself rather than outsourcing it to an LLM?
This isn't about charity — it's about building kinship-based infrastructure.
- danielbln 10mo agoI'm so sick of that particular LLMism: it's not (just) X -- it's Y!
- thequux 10mo agoThe sad thing is, this is one of the rhetorical flourishes that gets drilled into you in debate and comms education. ChatGPT picked it up because it's extremely common.
- thequux 10mo agoA few people have called us on this, but it's simply not true. The copy was all written by hand; the only machine assistance here is XCompose (you, too, can type an em-dash!). It turns out that when everybody involved is some level of techie and you're targeting a sort of "corporate bland" tone so that you look professional and trustworthy by modeling your communications on other successful kickstarters, it comes out looking similar to what other marketing copy looks like, which is precisely what all of the LLMs were trained on.