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LLMs are not good at writing. If they were we would have entire libraries of new, amazing literature.
by cactusplant7374 6mo ago
LLMs are not good at writing. If they were we would have entire libraries of new, amazing literature.
- romanhn 6mo agoNeither are most humans
- mrhottakes 6mo agoAgreed, some humans are good writers, and no LLMs are good writers.
- dwringer 6mo agoThis is rather moving the goalposts from "plausibly human comment" to "meaningful literature", I think
- cactusplant7374 6mo agoNo. I'm drawing it out to its logical conclusion.
- mr_toad 6mo agoIt’s poor logic, a non sequitur. An absurd reduction. By your argument anyone who hasn’t written a great literary work is a poor writer, and would be bad at writing online comments. LLMs aren’t lacking in the sort of writing skills that make for superficially good content. They know grammar, they know rhetoric, and they know their audience. You can’t tell them from a human on their writing skills. Where they tend to fall down is their logic and reasoning skills, and unfortunately it seems you can’t use that to distinguish them from the average online opinionator either.
- cactusplant7374 6mo agoNo, that is a mischaracterization of what I wrote. They are great writers if you enjoy formulaic writing.
- Tanoc 6mo agoExactly, they aren't good at creating new material. But many discussions in comment section are simply regurgitations of existing material, which they are good at rearranging. New novel discussions in places like this are actually a very rare thing, as many comment sections are simply people who already know informing those who don't. I'm doing that right now, funnily enough.
- hexaga 6mo agoNo, they aren't even good at rearranging existing material. They produce bad writing that only superficially looks good in a lowest-common-denominator sense, and falls apart under any close examination. Everything is wrong with it, from the sentence structure to the rhetorical forms to the substance. AI 'writing' is a loose collection of cheap tricks that score well on A/B.
- cactusplant7374 6mo agoPrecisely. People here are claiming that everyone is being fooled and that LLMs are amazing at casual writing. It's very silly.