How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly

Posted by joshmoody24 7 hours ago

How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly(joshmoody.org)

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adeitch 4 hours ago|

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cwnyth 7 hours ago||

A lot of obvious LLM speech is obvious, but please spare us academics and former academics who learned how to use an em- and en-dash properly. Proper writing in general is being derided by younger folks who are too uneducated to tell the difference. I recently had someone claim my company's website, which is virtually unchanged since 2020, was "obviously AI." Yeah, kid, except you can go on Internet Archive and see it before ChatGPT was dropped.

But it doesn't matter. It's just playing chess with pigeons at that point.

gizmo385 7 hours ago|

I share your sentiment of not being overly judgmental when you see an en/em dash but this feels overly reductive and hostile:

> Proper writing in general is being derided by younger folks who are too uneducated to tell the difference.

There are legitimate differences in writing styles between age groups and cultures and being overly prescriptive in what is “right” vs “wrong” doesn’t help your argument IMO

cwnyth 7 hours ago|||

I think you are misconstruing what I said. I'm not talking about other cultures, I'm talking about the youth who turn in essays that mimic their texting style. I should know: I spent years grading their essays and helping them fashion a more professional writing style.

fc417fc802 7 hours ago|||

It's true that there are differences but I think it's simultaneously the case that the practice in any form is on the decline at the population level. No idea what the expected endpoint might be though.

chungusamongus 7 hours ago|

This type of mentality is really not helping anyone. If you really think shaming people works, I don't know what planet youve been on for the past 10 years. And I reallllly dont trust any of you to accurately determine intent lol.

The people going around pointing fingers about AI often get it wrong. Just listened to a podcast in which the host baselessly accused a film studio of using AI in their marketing and they later had to apologize because GUESS WHAT? An actual artist with feelings made the poster she was talking about. I'd honestly rather let a hundred AI fraudsters off the hook than falsely accuse one person of using it when they actually made a genuine effort.

weikju 7 hours ago|

> This type of mentality is really not helping anyone. If you really think shaming people works,

Scroll down past the emojis to the actual interesting part of the article with positive reinforcement, empathy, etc.

chungusamongus 7 hours ago||

Yeah i read it. As I said, I dont think any of you can accurately determine intent so its a moot point.