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1. meerita · 1790150326 · focus · HN ↗

   Grammarly was a great idea in the pre-AI era. Now I bet they're losing a lot with so many AI solutions that are better integrated across every ecosystem.

   Some people will argue that Grammarly still has a better suggestion system, but models have become increasingly good at writing. I think this product and its revenue model will become obsolete pretty soon.

   1. rossy · 1790152828 · focus · HN ↗

      > but models have become increasingly good at writing.

      That's not the impression I have. HN has almost daily articles bemoaning the use of AI to enhance or pad-out human-to-human communication and the comments almost universally agree that the output is bad, using AI to communicate is rude, and they'd rather read the human-written prompt than the AI-"enhanced" version.

      I'm not aware of any model that has solved the AI writing problem. Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 improve on Fable 5 and Opus 5, but neither are good. They all seem to overuse jargon, misuse literary devices and write ill-fitting metaphor. They all produce prose that is dense and hard to read, but sparse on actual information. Even non-techy people can identify AI writing.

      1. em-bee · 1790155511 · focus · HN ↗

         HN readers are not average people. elsewhere i see people using AI to write without any blowback. maybe they don't want to ruffle feathers, but they are engaging, whereas i prefer to just skip over AI generated posts.

         1. ruszki · 1790156590 · focus · HN ↗

            What about just labeling you silently as useless? How do you know that this doesn't happen?

            1. RugnirViking · 1790159266 · focus · HN ↗

               this. My not-at-all technical partner often comments to me that whatever youtuber is reading from an ai script and just turns off whatever we're watching. I assume similar happens in other areas.

               For her its rarely the specific tells ("not-x-but-y" etc) but rather its bad metaphors and analogies that get her.

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