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- humanities@beehaw.org
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This does not sound good for those people. Writing is a way of thinking. AI writing assistants are competitive cognitive artifacts. People who use AI to write most of their written communication will get worse at thinking through writing.
Most people don’t need to think, they need to write. And AI helps them in that.
I always use AI to write texts.
I am to fucking lazy to write more than keywords 😆.
I let it format into a proper text and tell it what it should adjust. That is one task AI is very good in (way better than myself).
For me, it is the faster approach, but I always tend to write with enormous information density (which is disliked by many people somehow) anyway.
I personally prefer the shortest wording with most information to read, so I sometimes let AI summarise.
I’m surprised that researchers are surprised at all.
People bad at math use calculators. People with bad handwriting prefer to type. Weak people use levers. Slow people rely more on wheels. Its like were a bunch of tool using primates or something.
‘researchers surprised people that don’t know how to do a thing cheat to use half baked tools to do the thing for them.’
Even before the AI fad, services like Grammarly were surprising to me. So, you’re marketing to non-readers, and people who want to sound better in written communication… without learning to write better… Huh. My current employment has very little formal writing as part of it, yet I still think learning how to effectively communicate is absolutely vital for any job, or at least for getting a better one…
Grammerly is a key logger, I’d look into alternatives.
I have also seen a video discussing that Grammarly often makes mistakes because it doesn’t understand context and nuance as much as a human would.
vital
Funny that you emphasized this word, which has become such a tell of ChatGPT (along with “delve” and “crucial”).
How are you such an expert on ChatGPT? Sus
Are you… accusing me of being a bot?
No, they just said it was funny, given the context.
My bad, I’ll laugh now!
But was it funny?
Yes
—Elevate—
Professional writing was always fake. And this just proves it more.
I hate how increasingly we will be forced to take patronizing AI slop at face value.
How are journalists, novelists, researchers, etc fake?
Sorry, I was focused in on professional communication. All those emails sent by bosses that feign interest or care. All necessary niceties that can grate on someone once they know many are just masks.
I wasn’t being precise, and I assumed others wouldn’t think about it in such broad terms. I agree that my statement would be silly if it applied to all writing that people get paid for.
Are you talking about corporate jargon? Intentionally vague and used by people to try to sound smart. I always ask what someone means when they use it because they could have just used clear and normal language.
I appreciate that someone could tell I didn’t mean to be super broad.
Jargon definitely falls under the umbrella I was pointing at. Communication among co-workers. Managers. Etc.
The whole style feels cold to me. And impersonal. And I hate it. Jargon can definitely play a role. But I’m also ok with certain types that actually do make communication flow smoother. But yeah, the vapid jargon that masks a lack of understanding, curiosity or humility is a bummer.
