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I think you should almost never use AI to write

363 points · 177 comments · erwald

  1. jameshart · · focus · HN ↗
    Use AI to write things for you to read that you wish someone else had written. ‘Give me a summary of the research on this topic’; ‘Write a report on this data to help me make a decision’. ‘Take this transcript of a meeting and write me the email it could have been’.

    Don’t use AI to write things that you are producing for someone else to consume.

    1. bdangubic · · focus · HN ↗
      I am someone else, if AI can write something that I want to and can consume then it can do the same for other’s consumption. Perhaps a disclaimer would be nice, “co-written with ____” but I see no difference between the two though of course I understand what you are trying to convey conceptually
      1. bigstrat2003 · · focus · HN ↗
        The words of a machine are not of interest to me. I want to hear what you, the human, have to say, imperfections and all. Reading something written by an LLM is actively annoying, and it's not very respectful to inflict that upon others.
        1. bdangubic · · focus · HN ↗
          so you never use LLMs like at all?
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