For me it comes down to temptation. It’s so easy to ask an LLM to check my grammar. But then maybe also check my wording for specific paragraphs, and word choice, and checking my ideas for an essay… Until eventually I’m exporting some of my thinking to it which is making me a lazier writer.
A human editor simply doesn’t have the time to rewrite everything for me. And humans aren’t instantly available all the time like LLMs.
If you have the self-control to draw a clear line in the sand for LLM use and abide to it, more power to you. For me, however, LLMs are too tempting and I know that if I allowed an inch that I would take a mile.
I think we’re drifting a bit in this discussion. Grammarly as a product contains an AI assistant and will rewrite your sentences automatically (I haven’t used grammarly, but it looks to be the case). That’s more like a chatbot than traditional spell check or a rule-based grammar checker.
For me it comes down to temptation. It’s so easy to ask an LLM to check my grammar. But then maybe also check my wording for specific paragraphs, and word choice, and checking my ideas for an essay… Until eventually I’m exporting some of my thinking to it which is making me a lazier writer.
A human editor simply doesn’t have the time to rewrite everything for me. And humans aren’t instantly available all the time like LLMs.
If you have the self-control to draw a clear line in the sand for LLM use and abide to it, more power to you. For me, however, LLMs are too tempting and I know that if I allowed an inch that I would take a mile.
Installing grammarly is about letting an LLM check your grammar. I don’t think it takes much self control to keep that separate from Chatbots.
I think we’re drifting a bit in this discussion. Grammarly as a product contains an AI assistant and will rewrite your sentences automatically (I haven’t used grammarly, but it looks to be the case). That’s more like a chatbot than traditional spell check or a rule-based grammar checker.
The question is what done by an LLM. Grammarly is LLM powered. LLMs are a specific technology. The term is not synonymous with chatbot.
If someone want to claim that you don’t use LLMs but they actually do, that matters.