Comment by ithkuil
16 hours ago
Don't get me wrong, I loathe the AI style as the next person.
But I don't buy your argument: if a person used AI to produce a text it doesn't mean they haven't steered the I in the direction they wanted the conversation to go and (hopefully) review the output.
That's an added value
Yes, it would be nice if it was also pleasant to read
They don’t review the output. That’s the thing. No one is reading this stuff, not all of it at the least.
It's still a lower effort contribution and because the surface is plausible and the content is usually verbose, it's a bigger waste of time for the other party than a low effort 100% human contribution.
Steered it?! If I'm gonna read it, I want someone to have written it, not bloody "steered" it!
"Why are you upset with this restaurant meal? Okay it wasn't actually cooked here per se, but the chef certainly reheated it and carefully monitored the microwave oven while doing so!"
This crap just needs to end. "Steering" words at another human being is incredibly disrespectful.
big restaurants have many cooks that are trained and monitored by the chef, but the chef is certainly not necessarily prepairing your meal.
The chef is however responsible for the outcome so you're absolutely right to complain if the meal sucks and most of this AI written crap definitely sucks to read.
That said, it's not about the "principle" of having your meal cooked by the chef / the text written word by word by the human.
It's about the outcome. People should learn to tame their AI tools/harnesses in such a way to produce quality output (code and prose) and it's absolutely despicable that so many people are so eager to lower our standards in quality just because everybody else seems to be doing it.
If I go to a restaurant and find out I got a reheated meal I'm going to be upset no matter how much quality control the chef does of the reheating. That's just not something I would ever go to a restaurant for.
> That said, it's not about the "principle" of having your meal cooked by the chef / the text written word by word by the human. It's about the outcome.
No. It very much isn't about outcome. It's about interpersonal relationships.
> People should learn to tame their AI tools/harnesses in such a way to produce quality output (code and prose)
The quality isn't the problem. The quality is that something that needs to be "tamed" is writing words that the "tamer" expects me to read.