Dr Zoyander StreetFeb 21

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.

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@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.
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@Furthering @zoy I've been in EFL for almost 30 years and have grappled with LLM submissions for most of those. Most of my students are also learning against their will. So the past 5 years or so I stopped grading grammar. I fix egregious errors, but if my students have made their intent clear they get the score. In turn they often feel less hesitant to try, which had a much bigger impact on their learning than any explanations about where to put participles ever could.
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@Bumblefish @zoy Yep, I'm working with professional writers, but I heap on the praise when they strive to maintain their voice. I can help them clarify and correct. They respect themselves, me, and the reader enough to try as a human being, and that's wonderful.