• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comOP
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    7 hours ago

    I already think that it’s insulting when people accomplish/do/implement/… something and want to inform the others and do that by generating a 1-2 pages long wall of text via LLM that is then copy-pasted into an email…

    Like… Can’t you just write down the 5 or 10 most important points? Are we not worth the time to do so? Do we have to find the most relevant information ourselves in that text???

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      8 hours ago

      You’re supposed to feed it into your own prompt to summarize it duh. /s

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      I sometimes use LLMs to help me with brevity or clarity. But the input is my own words and the output is almost always edited so that I sound like me because sometimes, while the output is serviceable, it’s just… bad and uninspired.

      Plus it’s like “this doesn’t sound professional”. Well, fuck you, it sounds how I want to sound.

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          Who said I rely on it? I accept suggestions when they are good, even if the source of the suggestions is a slop generator. I accept what it is right about and reject what is wrong. And why not? It costs nothing.

          And, at 52, I write the way I write. I enjoy the process, I enjoy playing with language. I enjoy the juxtaposition of literary flourishes with a crude fuck you thrown in as punctuation and counterpoint to what might otherwise seem inaccessible or deliberately obtuse.

          But do you know what I’ve found? I can be a little overly self-indulgent. For example, you didn’t want all this, you just wanted to throw your glib little “lrn2write” and garner a few upvotes from the vehement AI haters and give yourself a self-righteous pat on the back.

          Sometimes I need another perspective to suggest restraint. As you can see, this, like 98% of my writing, is mine alone, else I’d’ve taken what would undoubtedly be good advice and held back on the more acerbic bits, and made sure I wasn’t posting some knee-jerk defensive self-indulgent 100% man-made slop.

          But here we are.

          • tomalley8342@lemmy.world
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            1 hour ago

            It costs nothing.

            Except for an opportunity to practice getting better at the thing you recognize is an issue.

            And, at 52, I write the way I write.

            Although I guess you’ve already given up on the getting better part.

          • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works
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            How do you know if its a good suggestion if you don’t know what you’re doing? Think for yourself, stop trusting slop.

            And, at 52, I write the way I write.

            Apparently not. Now you write the way a slop generator tells you to write.