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I'm the author and I'm not native speaker, so please bear that in mind. However, I admit I've used AI for grammar and style. IMHO, the post is not fiction, I ju
by eivanov89 26d ago
I'm the author and I'm not native speaker, so please bear that in mind. However, I admit I've used AI for grammar and style. IMHO, the post is not fiction, I just wanted to communicate the ideas as clearly and effectively as possible.
- pianom4n 26d agoJust don't. Your older posts are perfectly fine and much preferable to the most recent two.
- eivanov89 26d agoFrankly speaking, you are the second (with this thread, the third) one, who says that. So, it looks that I really should write myself again with just grammar checks, not the style.
- magicalhippo 26d agoWhat I've done a few times is have the AI provide feedback, and then I rewrite myself based on the feedback. So I don't use what the AI suggests directly, just the essence if I agree.
- eivanov89 26d agoThat's a good approach. My sin is that if I like the sentence, I keep and don't rewrite. Because if I see it is good, I don't feel I should. And probably I don't see that "prose" is bad each time it is indeed bad.
- throw-the-towel 26d agoMaybe you should just patch a grammar problem instead of rewriting the whole sentence. (I'm not blaming you but just sharing my experience, I suspect your first language might be a Slavic one like mine.)
- eivanov89 26d agoThanks for sharing. I didn't expect my slavic accent to be so strong to be visible in text and even pass through AI edits :)
- throw-the-towel 26d agoWell, to be completely honest with you, it is obvious in your comments here. But my point was, keeping your Slavic accent and fixing the most glaring places with the help of AI is probably better than letting AI rewrite large portions of your text into "Better English". People do hate the AI accent these days, you know.
- porridgeraisin 25d agoTBH, your username gives that part away atleast. My mind went to slavic when I saw the "ov" - it might be factually wrong, but thats waht happened.
- eivanov89 24d agoYou are right :)
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- gib444 26d agoIt's easy to falsely assume readers expect you to be native, or that they are even native English speakers themselves Or that they want AI text over imperfect English
- pianopatrick 26d agoI wonder what would happen if you just told the AI to speak in broken english... Hilarity may ensure.
- eivanov89 26d agoFair enough.
- w0rd-driven 26d agoIf you're going for just grammar and spelling, Grammarly has been around for ages and doesn't try to rewrite everything. I'm a native speaker and I don't trust any LLM to retain my style because diffing paragraphs or reworking sections is tedious as hell. I'm reeeeeally lazy and the only workflow I am tempted to do is a rough draft from an LLM, a full rewrite from me, and something like Grammarly for small mistakes. Anything over a single iteration feels like pulling teeth because it's never as subtle as you tell it to be. It truly feels like giving a typewriter to monkeys.
- rcxdude 26d agoTBH I don't think it's that bad: the article is not hard to read and pretty informative (and is not just a copy + paste from a prompt), it's just got a hint of that tone which can grate just because it's rendered so cliche by LLM writing.
- eivanov89 25d agoThank you, that's actually was my actual attitude: found interesting things -> used AI to polish notes and quick draft -> "Hey folks, here is a cool thing I've found".