I find it so weird that people use AI to write things. Writing is one of the easiest things you can do. Just put one word after the other.

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D-Machine 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Writing is pretty hard for a lot of people, maybe especially so if they are more non-verbal thinkers, and then doubly so again if one must write not in one's native language.

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bigstrat2003 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends on the writing. Writing a blog post or something is challenging because you want to have an engaging style. But I see people at work using LLMs to fill out tickets, which is the easiest thing in the world. It's just a plain description of things, it requires no skill at writing at all. It baffles me that people are using LLMs for something like that, which should take less than a minute of your time to fill out and will be more pleasant for the recipient than the slop the model produces.

	▲	D-Machine 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Here I would maybe argue that the simplicity makes these kinds of tasks tedious (like doing taxes), so it also makes a lot of sense for people to want to just throw AI at it. Tedious, easy rote tasks can be much more unpleasant than engaging ones. I think people massively over-rely on AI and I really worry about the consequences of this. But there is nothing baffling at all about the basic appeal, IMO.

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nephihaha 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It depends on what you are trying to convey and how.

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sublinear 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much.

Anyway, I completely agree. Writing isn't something to be delegated.

The problem is not new with LLMs. Businesses have been delegating writing to idiots who don't really care for the entire history of business. Authors and musicians have traded their souls for inauthentic crowd-pleasing results for about as long.

No, the problem with LLMs is that people are all using the same generic models. This only further shows that the future of LLMs is locally trained and locally run. Personal LLMs on a personal computer. Business LLMs on-prem. We will continue see them flourish in ways that generate absolutely no money whatsoever on their own, but do add marginal value when combined with a heavy dose of human creativity.

All the clueless old farts that are still alive by this point will continue to lecture the rest of us with more condescending gee whiz "whaddyaknow" and "whodathunkit" nonsense. As if they've even had their finger on the pulse since the early 2000s.

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mh- 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I don't think I have to speculate why comments like yours get downvoted so much.

I'm genuinely not sure what you're implying here. Can you expand?

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sublinear 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I won't. That's why I said that.

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mh- 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm even more confused now. I guess this was an oblique way of accusing people of astroturfing?

	▲	sublinear an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hmm, when do you suppose HN started (ab)using the downvotes reddit-style anyway? I don't recall seeing hardly any downvotes before 2023.