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The need is that writing is expensive. An LLM is around a hundred times cheaper than a human, so this kind of article that doesn't provide tons of value just ma
by stavros 2mo ago
The need is that writing is expensive. An LLM is around a hundred times cheaper than a human, so this kind of article that doesn't provide tons of value just makes sense to write with an LLM.
I hate LLM writing, but the economics checks out.
- iLoveOncall 2mo agoHow about not writing the article at all then?
- stavros 2mo agoBecause people will read it if you write it, hence us being here.
- frizlab 2mo agoMeh. I read the comments on HN, rarely the articles /(semi-)s
- stavros 2mo agoWhat would we comment on if there were no article?
- bluGill 2mo agoThere is the headline. In the typical case someone can write a comment (sometimes off the headline, sometimes have read the article) and it quickly becomes obvious that person is more knowledgeable that whoever wrote the article in the first place. Thus in many cases reading the comments is more valuable than the article.
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- throwaway67743 2mo agoThat might apply to some things, but there is little to no value in this article, so the economics are the same as the spam - cheap to spew garbage while providing no value and wasting the readers time. It's not something that should be encouraged. RIPE should know better.
- mrweasel 2mo ago> The need is that writing is expensive. That's the thing, good writing is expensive, massively so, much more than people think. Letting the machine do the writing however shows us that many people have no idea why writing is expensive, nor do they respect that perhaps it needs to be expensive. Communication is incredibly hard, very few master it. I'd even go so far as to say that clear, precise and readable communication is so hard that we do not have sufficient training data to build an LLM that can do it. Letting a person write article, like this one, doesn't necessarily improve the quality, but it does show us that some thought and effort have at least been put into it. There was a cost and you deemed that cost worth it for conveying your message. Without the cost there's nothing stopping you from wasting peoples time.