nazI’ve been seeing a few articles being passed around lately, and noticed the tell-tale signs of AI editing. Some are heavier-handed than others, but it’s clear that people are increasingly using LLMs to help them write. The heavy-handed ones are almost impossible to continue reading once you identify it. It’s not necessarily the typical slop as there’s intention in it, but it can to hard to parse where the line is if you’re not already familiar with the author.
Ste Grainer@nazhamid Meanwhile I’m over here writing my stuff from scratch and terrified that it reads as if AI wrote it. >.<
@stegrainer It’s a real concern! If I make this sentence well-edited, does it now read like it was helped or written by an LLM?! I find myself doing that a lot lately.
And then, being exposed to @jenschuetz’s skills as a former copy editor and proofreader, and who’s helped edit my own writing, I can see where LLMs have shaped themselves into something where I recognize her work (not directly of course) in what they’re trained on.
Toni@nazhamid @stegrainer @jenschuetz this is the bit that pisses me off the most. As a big fan of m-dashes and metaphors — LLM proliferation now makes *my* style (that I worked a LONG time to get to) look like it’s slop.
Jen 🧶🏃🏼♀️🧗🏼♀️🏕️🧳