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If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI

17 points · 25 comments · zazuke

  1. kdazzle · · focus · HN ↗
    I had a professor who said that writing is thinking. If you outsource writing to an AI, there’s no thought in it.

    Using AI for any part of the writing process has a way of seeping into the rest of it, so I try to stay away from using it at all when writing.

    1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
      LLM also makes it way too easy to “cheat”. It’s really like bilbo and the ring of power: “this is pretty hard to explain in a coherent way, maybe, just maybe, I can just this one time use AI? Nobody will know!”. And little by little you end up arguing with yourself that actually generating the whole article isn’t really that bad, while slowly morphing into a human harness
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