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I think you should almost never use AI to write

363 points · 177 comments · erwald

  1. AlienRobot · · focus · HN ↗
    I find it so weird that people use AI to write things. Writing is one of the easiest things you can do. Just put one word after the other.
    1. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
      I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much.

      Anyway, I completely agree. Writing isn't something to be delegated.

      The problem is not new with LLMs. Businesses have been delegating writing to idiots who don't really care for the entire history of business. Authors and musicians have traded their souls for inauthentic crowd-pleasing results for about as long.

      No, the problem with LLMs is that people are all using the same generic models. This only further shows that the future of LLMs is locally trained and locally run. Personal LLMs on a personal computer. Business LLMs on-prem. We will continue see them flourish in ways that generate absolutely no money whatsoever on their own, but do add marginal value when combined with a heavy dose of human creativity.

      All the clueless old farts that are still alive by this point will continue to lecture the rest of us with more condescending gee whiz "whaddyaknow" and "whodathunkit" nonsense. As if they've even had their finger on the pulse since the early 2000s.

      1. mh- · · focus · HN ↗
        > I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much.

        I'm genuinely not sure what you're implying here. Can you expand?

        1. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
          No, I won't. That's why I said that.
          1. mh- · · focus · HN ↗
            I'm even more confused now. I guess this was an oblique way of accusing people of astroturfing?
            1. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
              Hmm, when do you suppose HN started (ab)using the downvotes reddit-style anyway? I don't recall seeing hardly any downvotes before 2023.
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