Assuming that superficially, these articles give the illusion that some work has been done. Did they even consider that anyone can spew out the same articles with AI, therefore whatever value they could have brought through their own perspective and experience as a person is now gone.
Depends on what they bring to the table. I would say that writing, from my perspective, essentially has two broad categories of features. Technical and creative. Technical like proper grammar, not having a run-on sentence, not reusing the same word over and over again, etc.
@joshuajfriedman.com I'll leave this one in your capable hands
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I know, right?
As a professional writer, there’s just one measure I’m interested in. Did the piece make its readers think, feel and do what I intended? Measuring your writing simply by the delivery of articles alone is a fool’s errand.
Creative decisions are where experiences come in. I can see writers using AI to help fill in the technical gaps.
If the "writer" can't understand the semantics of what they're trying to say, how will they understand whether the LLM is saying anything truthful about it? Not that it matters if they aren't even going to proofread it. Seriously, if you have to, just hire somebody with an arts degree or something.
"I'm not paid to know where to put a comma so I'm just going to trust that the Racism Accelerator will adequately communicate what it absolutely does not understand instead." Seriously what the shit. Technical gaps my ass.
that's what editors, peer reviewers, and the fucking spell checker were for instead of burning energy and boiling lakes to cool down server farms running four million daily ChatGPT prompts to "make this writing good" fuckksake
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In my mind both are very intertwined. Style isn’t just a means, something that merely gets in the way of achieving your objective. It is an important part of the creation. That’s what I believe it's better to try and accept not being perfect, if it means being personal.
Now using AI to fill the 'technical gaps' for something that you want to say and it feels like it's THE ONLY way, I get it. But it has to be said that every bit in the text that doesn't come from the person (be it adequate writing) is as much taken away from the overall interest of the writing.