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Comment by Retr0id

9 hours ago

As a "proof" of their poor judgement, take a paragraph you like. Ask the LLM to rewrite it to make it better (which I think we both agree will not make it better), and then in a fresh session ask it which it thinks is best. It'll almost always pick its own writing, even when it sucks.

Right, I agree: that’s exactly not what I’m recommending.

  • You are specifically recommending asking the model which of two versions is better (the quote in my top-level comment).

    We both agree that they are poor "make it better" machines, but I also believe they are bad A/B testers and I'm using the former to demonstrate the latter.

    • You are writing both paragraphs. You’re specifically not asking a model to make a better paragraph. That would be a load-bearing debacle.

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