Comment by RevEng
2 days ago
How so and why? I know plenty of people whose writing naturally carries a tone that they don't intend. I often help them to change their wording to be less confrontational or seemingly sarcastic when it isn't meant to be. Would you say it is wrong for them to get assistance to get the tone they intend rather than the one they would tend to write?
It's the difference between correctness and tone/character/semantics (tone and character do affect semantics). We need to do things we don't quite mean in subjective spaces, to learn. Developing yourself is wonderful, but presenting a writing style that does not yet represent your learned tone feels disingenuous to the reader and harms the tone of the whole conversation. Using LLMs to iterate might help you learn, but use that tool privately, or with friends/family/mentors. With others, simply make your mistakes.
To be clear, I also think you shouldn't rely on auto-correction or LLMs for correctness (they are great for identifying your mistakes, but I think you should then fix the mistakes yourself, to develop your brain). It's just that "assisted" correctness isn't misleading/harmful in the way that "assisted" tone/character/semantics are.