Comment by JimDabell
1 month ago
> I often hear this here: "if you don't bother writing, why should I bother reading?"
That is an opinion somebody shared on X which has been mindlessly repeated over and over again in other places such as this site.
Why do you value those comments when all they are doing is parroting something they didn’t think themselves? It seems to undermine your point entirely. There is zero originality or effort in those comments. Why are you bothering to read them?
Copying and pasting somebody else’s opinion from one social media site to another is no more virtuous than what you are complaining about.
I value that opinion because it resonates with me. When I use an LLM to write an article, it's usually because I don't have the time or energy to go through my normal process of writing.
Sure, I still end up with a polished article, but a lot of it is not entirely my idea or something I would have written through the filter of my own experience. So in order to share my true take on a subject, I have to go through the struggle of writing and bouncing of ideas in my head, which almost always results in a better output.