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 once read how boring classical music recordings have become because they are now pimped to perfection. Music with a personal touch/imperfections was a much more approachable experience.

@Sleepypanda @zoy If you listen to Beethoven performed on (imperfect) period instruments at the original notated speed, it’s an entirely different experience. Suddenly the music has raw power to it.

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Speedy Beet

Beethoven, like you've never heard him before.

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