Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply, hope you're well! Thanks for the thing last week".

If there's no budget for a human editor, why should the text meet a "professional" (middle class, formally educated) standard? Dyslexic people can just write how they write and people can deal with it. Autistic people can just say what they mean to say and not waste energy on the double empathy gap.

We can learn to read for a more inclusive world, instead of wasting the planet's diminishing resources masking our differences.

@zoy There are also lots of people who have proofreading/editing skills who are happy to help out if it's a special piece or from an author who is struggling or whatever. Like, most of us don't want to be taken advantage of, but like, gimme an actual cookie and I'm happy to proof while I eat it (or whatever)

@michaelc @zoy this! I'm always happy to help friends look over a difficult email/letter or hepp write something. My partner hates writing to businesses and such so we do that together.

It's just yet another opportunity to connect with other people and share talents to help out that's squandered.