many people use llms to write garbage. But this was the case even before llms, e.g. article farms. I would say that llms have raised the bar in such cases.
I let the llm write for me. I prompt it for the concepts to write about, read it, tell it to rephrase something I don’t like. The initial prompt (before the article key ideas) includes information about me, such that the output is closer to what I would express things with. The output is blatantly still LLM sounding.
Could I just put the prompt in my blog and let others ask their own llms? That wouldn’t convey what I want. There is still value in the right prompt as the possible questions are uncountable. There is value in tuning the output.
To retain some human touch I prefer to manually write the footnotes in places where I don’t like the phrasing of the llm that much but changing it would break the flow.
English standardized international language in the last half century, through the internet. LLMs are standardizing the English form. Yes, its kinda Orwellian, but compared to news papers and televisions, they are not worse, but better. You can say that old media does a worse job at plasmating human minds with repetitive and often times subliminal messages, but there is variance in the media sources. LLMs definitely provide much more variance in their outputs, but less in their sources.
Speed reading is as important as it has ever been. LLMs generate content with proper bolding, pacing, keywords better than your average article. If you think llm content feels empty, just speed read through it, tune your attention to the hints the content gives you.
many people use llms to write garbage. But this was the case even before llms, e.g. article farms. I would say that llms have raised the bar in such cases.
I let the llm write for me. I prompt it for the concepts to write about, read it, tell it to rephrase something I don’t like. The initial prompt (before the article key ideas) includes information about me, such that the output is closer to what I would express things with. The output is blatantly still LLM sounding.
Could I just put the prompt in my blog and let others ask their own llms? That wouldn’t convey what I want. There is still value in the right prompt as the possible questions are uncountable. There is value in tuning the output.
To retain some human touch I prefer to manually write the footnotes in places where I don’t like the phrasing of the llm that much but changing it would break the flow.
English standardized international language in the last half century, through the internet. LLMs are standardizing the English form. Yes, its kinda Orwellian, but compared to news papers and televisions, they are not worse, but better. You can say that old media does a worse job at plasmating human minds with repetitive and often times subliminal messages, but there is variance in the media sources. LLMs definitely provide much more variance in their outputs, but less in their sources.
Speed reading is as important as it has ever been. LLMs generate content with proper bolding, pacing, keywords better than your average article. If you think llm content feels empty, just speed read through it, tune your attention to the hints the content gives you.