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It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich (distantprovince.by)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You should learn how to write better instead of relying on slop.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Who said I rely on it? I accept suggestions when they are good, even if the source of the suggestions is a slop generator. I accept what it is right about and reject what is wrong. And why not? It costs nothing.

    And, at 52, I write the way I write. I enjoy the process, I enjoy playing with language. I enjoy the juxtaposition of literary flourishes with a crude fuck you thrown in as punctuation and counterpoint to what might otherwise seem inaccessible or deliberately obtuse.

    But do you know what I've found? I can be a little overly self-indulgent. For example, you didn't want all this, you just wanted to throw your glib little "lrn2write" and garner a few upvotes from the vehement AI haters and give yourself a self-righteous pat on the back.

    Sometimes I need another perspective to suggest restraint. As you can see, this, like 98% of my writing, is mine alone, else I'd've taken what would undoubtedly be good advice and held back on the more acerbic bits, and made sure I wasn't posting some knee-jerk defensive self-indulgent 100% man-made slop.

    But here we are.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The environmental cost is enormous.

    It doesn't expose you to actual creative writing, either. Like people go to museums to see Picasso. This is the equivalent of the art on the wall at Olive Garden.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    The environmental cost is not enormous because I'm not using it on a massive scale. I kill more of the environment playing PlayStation than I do using AI. I also don't use AI to get exposure to art, I use it to critique my writing from a different perspective. I'm a good enough writer to know what feedback to accept and what not to, same as when I use it for programming: I'm an expert with 30 years of experience and I can evaluate the quality of the code, however sometimes it points out things I've missed because I'm also human and can make mistakes.

    I'm a better writer than 95% of the planet, which isn't good enough to be a professional, but is more than sufficient for social media. However I do appreciate an outside perspective and believe me I am well able to recognize bullshit feedback that doesn't align with my style or intent. I also rarely use it for that in any event because I rarely look at what I've written and have a sense I'm missing something — but it does happen.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago

    It costs nothing.

    Except for an opportunity to practice getting better at the thing you recognize is an issue.

    And, at 52, I write the way I write.

    Although I guess you've already given up on the getting better part.

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago

    How do you know if its a good suggestion if you don't know what you're doing? Think for yourself, stop trusting slop.

    And, at 52, I write the way I write.

    Apparently not. Now you write the way a slop generator tells you to write.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    The best way to learn to write is to write and have someone critique you. That someone can be an AI it doesn't change anything about the process, as long as the initial input is your own best effort and the final result is your own edit based on the feedback you received.

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