"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal

grey-area 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unfortunately with word generators this has become -

I would have written a letter, but I couldn’t be bothered.

r1zzzzA 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

third time i see this cliche quote in two days

	▲	FergusArgyll 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The quoting will continue until writing improves
	▲	AnimalMuppet an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The thing is that writing - especially writing well - is fairly hard, and does take time and mental effort. So lazy authors (or wannabe authors) take the shortcut. But the fact remains that most of us do not want to read AI-generated slop, and human-written slop is not much better. So there is a point to the quote, no matter how many times you've read it. But there is a countering point as well: If you don't have time, don't write. Don't use that as an excuse to get lazy and shove slop at us.
	▲	recursive 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And yet people(?) keep publishing stuff that's too long.