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1. alas44 · 1789838602 · focus · HN ↗

   "AI writing is vague and wrong in hard-to-notice ways" This one felt to me, at work I lost a lot of time re-reading and correcting AI prose that was launched to "summarize" a collective white paper, and where subtlety and nuance disappeared in ways that harmed the initial ideas/arguments I was writing about, but in sneaky ways.

   1. michaelchisari · 1789845634 · focus · HN ↗

      Most of us have worked our whole lives to be writers in some domain: Code, documentation, specifications, product requirements, corporate communication, etc.

      If we don't want to be writers, then we have to be editors. And editing is an entirely different job and it's not an easy one. In many ways it's harder.

      Especially when LLMs love writing novels when all we need is a short story or less.

      1. bluefirebrand · 1789847333 · focus · HN ↗

         A big part of the reason I'm deeply resentful of AI is that I want to be an artist not an editor

         1. asplake · 1789886114 · focus · HN ↗

            Can you be one without the other? Serious question – I’ve written five books, and the first draft was like 5% of the work.

            1. [deleted] · 1790003166 · focus · HN ↗

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