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.
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
When I seek input (whether passively or actively; it doesn't matter) from another person, then I generally want that person's input. I want their words.
They can be broken and jumbled, or terse AF, or combine to be Pulitzer-quality prose. Either way: I want to consume their own unique human expression of a concept.
There's value in raw human expression, including in the missteps.
If I instead want the regurgitated waggyings of a bot, then: I know how to get that on my own.
We've all got web browsers and pocket supercomputers. We've all (well, most of us) been alive and aware of LLMs since their recent rise from infancy.
It's a no-brainer for us to paste some paragraphs into our favorite chatbot and get a summary or an artificial expansion or whatever else we wish to have. If that's what our goal is, then we can do that on a whim -- and we can still retain the original expression.
But doing it on our behalf is deleterious, unsettling, and unhelpful. It has negative value to the beholder.
> When I seek input (whether passively or actively; it doesn't matter) from another person, then I generally want that person's input. I want their words.
There's a (probably subconscious) reason for you wanting that (and I just posted this elsewhere on a different story, but it bears repeating): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767867">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767867
jameshart · · focus · HN ↗
Don’t use AI to write things that you are producing for someone else to consume.
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ssl-3 · · focus · HN ↗
They can be broken and jumbled, or terse AF, or combine to be Pulitzer-quality prose. Either way: I want to consume their own unique human expression of a concept.
There's value in raw human expression, including in the missteps.
If I instead want the regurgitated waggyings of a bot, then: I know how to get that on my own.
We've all got web browsers and pocket supercomputers. We've all (well, most of us) been alive and aware of LLMs since their recent rise from infancy.
It's a no-brainer for us to paste some paragraphs into our favorite chatbot and get a summary or an artificial expansion or whatever else we wish to have. If that's what our goal is, then we can do that on a whim -- and we can still retain the original expression.
But doing it on our behalf is deleterious, unsettling, and unhelpful. It has negative value to the beholder.
lelanthran · · focus · HN ↗
There's a (probably subconscious) reason for you wanting that (and I just posted this elsewhere on a different story, but it bears repeating): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767867">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767867