Would you consider this acceptable? Is this still my own writing?
I wrote this:
knowledge is not private property.
if you are talented, if you were skilled, that means that the whole human history, biological and intellectual are behind you. they mixed and matched, they refined and innovated, generations shared the knowledge and genetics to make you with the hope that you use what they thought and made you to make a better world for current, the next generation and the generations after that.
if you use this inheritance just for your own personal greed and material accumulation, you are a dead end, a branch with no future, a branch that already started drying, dyeing.
look around, can you use what you are too make this world better, even for one other than you that doesn’t include your kids? can you teach the people next to you to do the same? then maybe your branch in this tree might still have a chance to survive.
and this is the LLM refinement:
Knowledge Is Not Private Property If you’re talented or skilled, it means you’re the result of everything that came before you. Human history, biological and intellectual, fed into you. Generations combined their genes, ideas, labor, and struggles with the hope that you would build something better, not just for yourself, but for those alive now, those coming next, and those who’ll follow them.
If you take that inheritance and use it only for your own gain, chasing wealth, status, or comfort, you’re a dead end. A branch with no future. One that’s already starting to dry out and die.
So ask yourself: Can you use what you’ve been given, your mind, your voice, your presence, to make this world better, even for one person who isn’t you? And no, that doesn’t mean leaving your assets to your kid. It means showing up while you’re still alive and making a difference that extends beyond your own skin.
Can you teach others to do the same? Then maybe your branch isn’t finished yet. Maybe it still belongs in the tree.
I mean, I’m not the arbiter of anything… I think it’s “fine”, in that for example I wouldn’t suggest a moderator should delete the LLM version for being LLM. I do think that the LLM version is very slightly worse on net. The correct sentence structure and capitalization is probably an improvement, but for example it replaced
your own personal greed and material accumulation
with
your own gain, chasing wealth, status, or comfort
And I prefer your phrasing, it’s more interesting. The LLM basically replaced
they mixed and matched, they refined and innovated
with
combined
which is worse and less evocative. The LLM replaced
even for one other than you that doesn’t include your kids?
with
And no, that doesn’t mean leaving your assets to your kid.
It means showing up while you’re still alive and making a difference that extends beyond your own skin.
which is a totally different and much worse sentiment, unless that is actually what you meant.
Here is how I see this: It gives people with no talent in writing and/or are not native to a specific language to still write coherent, well structured writing. Now I agree that asking an LLM to write you something like “Give me a good story for my homework...” is not acceptable, but if you use it as a smart type writer that can give you alternative/more clear ways of saying what you want to say, and you actually put the effort to create exactly what you want and don’t just accept the default responses, but you are refining your own ideas, it is acceptable.
I’m sure many don’t agree, but still, for someone like me it is pretty helpful. I also suspect that if the AI doesn’t kill us all, in few years this way of writing is going to be as accepted as buying a professional edited book and not just reading the writer’s draft.
Would you consider this acceptable? Is this still my own writing?
I wrote this:
and this is the LLM refinement:
I mean, I’m not the arbiter of anything… I think it’s “fine”, in that for example I wouldn’t suggest a moderator should delete the LLM version for being LLM. I do think that the LLM version is very slightly worse on net. The correct sentence structure and capitalization is probably an improvement, but for example it replaced
with
And I prefer your phrasing, it’s more interesting. The LLM basically replaced
with
which is worse and less evocative. The LLM replaced
with
which is a totally different and much worse sentiment, unless that is actually what you meant.
Here is how I see this: It gives people with no talent in writing and/or are not native to a specific language to still write coherent, well structured writing. Now I agree that asking an LLM to write you something like “Give me a good story for my homework...” is not acceptable, but if you use it as a smart type writer that can give you alternative/more clear ways of saying what you want to say, and you actually put the effort to create exactly what you want and don’t just accept the default responses, but you are refining your own ideas, it is acceptable.
I’m sure many don’t agree, but still, for someone like me it is pretty helpful. I also suspect that if the AI doesn’t kill us all, in few years this way of writing is going to be as accepted as buying a professional edited book and not just reading the writer’s draft.