Comment by bjourne
20 hours ago
There are legitimate, non-cheating ways to use LLMs for writing. I often use the wrong verb forms ("They synthesizes the ..."), write "though" when it should be "although", and forget to comma-separate clauses. LLMs are perfect for that. Generating text from scratch, however, is wrong.
I agree, but I don't think any of the broadly acceptable uses would result in easily identifiable flaws like those in the post, especially hallucinated URLs.
I do similar proofing (esp spelling) but u need to be very careful as it will nudge u to specific styles that rob originality.
> I often ... write "though" when it should be "although"
That is a purely imaginary "error". Anywhere you can use 'although', you are free to use 'though' instead.
Yeah, but you cannot use although anywhere you can use though, though.
That's true, but the one-way substitutability still means there is no such thing as "writ[ing] 'though' when it should be 'although'".