Something I have noticed is that the people who are using it to write everything are the same people who had a poor level of English writing a year or two ago.

It's just "intellectual" botox.

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visarga 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> It's just "intellectual" botox.

Could be just ESL, it's hard to close the proficient to native gap.

	▲	blharr an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've never had a problem with direct translation... but the 3 paragraph choppy structure with subheadings full of AI-isms is not ESL users using it faithfully
	▲	radicalbyte 24 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The people I've seen are English / American and monolingual.

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HarHarVeryFunny 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would make sense ... writing is a skill, and one that I think most people are proud of if they are good at it.

Maybe it's different if you are doing technical/commercial writing, but for social media where you are writing for fun, and to express yourself, it'd be odd to let AI be your voice unless you realize your own writing is very poor.

	▲	tyre 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> for social media where you are writing for fun, and to express yourself, it'd be odd to let AI be your voice unless you realize your own writing is very poor. A lot of people post for clout, so something that can skip the difficult process of becoming a good writer (and original thinker) is more than enough. They can churn out think pieces about any topic at an unlimited pace, basically. It doesn’t add much to the world, but they get a lot of traction (which I cannot understand, given the quality of content.) And that’s what matters to them. I think if you gave most people the choice between (a) being a thoughtful and original writer (b) being seen as a thoughtful and original writer, the vast majority choose (b). Especially when it is zero effort.

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the_af 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I noticed this from former coworkers who I know couldn't write beyond first grader level a few years ago. They weren't good at their native language either.

Now they write "competent" blog posts on LinkedIn that seem 100% AI slop. Some are employed at AWS, too.

I'm not a native English speaker as I'm sure my writing shows. My point is that I'd rather read genuine posts full of grammar errors instead of slop.

	▲	radicalbyte 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I can't tell from your post that English is not your native language, outside of the Americanisms (I assumed that American English was your native language) :-)