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Posted by eigenBasis 1 day ago

Don't Use AI to Write(paulbakker.io)
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sasaf5 1 day ago|
Also, don't use AI to translate into a language you can't read back. It glosses over assumptions you didn't know you made, and the output might not mean what you intended.
runarberg 23 hours ago||
I want LLM translations to die.

We used to have machine translation that worked well enough for readers to know the overall meaning most of the time, but when it failed, it failed spectacularly and the reader would know not to trust the output.

Now with LLM translations we can’t trust anything. Even simple translations which used to work perfectly now shoves extra LLM-isms into the translation making the prose ugly.

hdhdjdif 1 day ago||
this SPECIALLY for arabic the shit I see everyday
daoboy 1 day ago||
Similar recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767937
retrocog 1 day ago||
I'm on version 6 of a writing an agent voice, style, tone, and orientation guide I have been developing over the course of the past year. Every time the agent writes something using the guide, I edit it and then update the guide where needed. Slowly, the agent is beginning to sound eerily close to my natural writing voice. No, I didn't use it for this comment :)
crossroadsguy 23 hours ago||
Why is everyone suddenly asking everyone else to not use AI to write literature, essays, comments, emails, letters… but apparently writing code with AI is fine. Oh that sounds natural to you? Not to me, it doesn't. It doesn't feel natural to me writing anything with AI as a human being. But here we are.
baalimago 1 day ago||
AI for proofreading/spelling correction and reordering works quite well. My words, but perhaps structured in a way which makes more sense, with sentiment replaced by synonyms.

Basically an automatic "second-pass" which I would've caught had I re-read it, but automatically.

basilikum 1 day ago|
Proofreading yes, automatic "corrections" no
huijzer 1 day ago||
I agree. Writing manually and thoughtfully and then letting the AI figure out the nitty gritty implementation works very well.
tygon 1 day ago||
My brain immediately went to "I wonder how many people got this article and used AI to summarize it for them."
4b11b4 1 day ago||
I said this once in my recent "Trustworthy AI" class that... "I think writing with AI is one of the most detrimental things you can do".

The reaction was pretty much silence and most people probably thought I was some angry, arrogant, anti-ai purist... which isn't the case. It can be acceptable to use a language model in code generation but requires new forms of discipline and tooling.

But for for just regular old writing... Should never, ever be generated. I'll likely never change that stance.

sanjays442 23 hours ago||
Indeed, even the best models output needs to be checked thoroughly
Yashjain413 10 hours ago|
Why not ?
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