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 I work with writers who are not native speakers. These days, I sincerely cheer them on when they have the courage and determination to express themselves without using the LLM crutch even when they know they'll make errors. Bring on the quirks and the correct-adjacent phrasing. There's so much humanity in it, and I find it absolutely beautiful.
@Furthering @zoy It is beautiful. When I read emails etc from people I know well, I hear it in their voice, with their accent. It would be very disconcerting to read something from them that didn't match how they speak. That would particularly be the case for communications that are really about relationships, rather than imparting information - congratulations, commiserations, seeing how folk are doing. We absolutely _need_ the humanity of our individual expression.

@RadtkeJCJ @zoy 100% this. Even when I'm correcting for clarity or grammar, I want to make sure that the person's voice remains.

An individual voice is becoming increasingly more precious.