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Anecdotally, LLMs are apparently good enough at writing to routinely make the front page of Hacker News. Twitter has a plague of bot comments. From all these up
by handoflixue 5mo ago
Anecdotally, LLMs are apparently good enough at writing to routinely make the front page of Hacker News. Twitter has a plague of bot comments. From all these up-votes, we can infer there is an audience and this is good faith.
Partly, I admit, I just tend to be wary of shame as a tool. "Someone said something I dislike" has a long history of being abused. Conversely, even something like your gum example, one can point at concrete harms like littering and forcing others to clean up after you.
- imperfect_blue 5mo agoUsing LLM as a writing assistant to properly format your ideas, while lazy, is not the same thing as a slop bomb. They're highly rated because the original ideas are good, even if the writing quality is sloppish, and it genuinely contains human input that you can't get simply by asking LLMs a question.
- adastra22 5mo agoIf the AI has enough editing input that your article comes off stylistically as AI-written, it is lazy and your writing is not as good as you think it is.
- imperfect_blue 5mo agoLazy is not bad, and bad writing doesn't mean it's not valuable or insightful.
- exe34 5mo agoLazy writing is disrespectful. Although nowadays we should assume the entire article is slop unless we have reason to suspect otherwise.
- grey-area 5mo agoMany people don’t read the articles before upvoting they tend to just read the headline. So I don’t think this proves much.
- 21asdffdsa12 5mo agoAnd the "We should shame them!" crowd has a long standing inability to tell fiction and facts apart, even if previously informed. There was this example of a polish writer who killed one of his characters off- and the people held mournings and church services for her. If you take the scripture for holy, then the holy scripture talking back to you making you a prophet, will condemn other fiction as blasphemy.
- cindyllm 5mo ago[dead]