I don’t fully understand the motivation to use LLMs to write blog posts.
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I don’t fully understand the motivation to use LLMs to write blog posts. The loss of personal voice is so striking that it immediately rings alarm bells in my head. You can fact check the output although even that is spotty but you can’t inject the soul back.
And if you stop writing yourself, what makes you think you still can? And what is it that makes you - you?
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I don’t fully understand the motivation to use LLMs to write blog posts. The loss of personal voice is so striking that it immediately rings alarm bells in my head. You can fact check the output although even that is spotty but you can’t inject the soul back.
And if you stop writing yourself, what makes you think you still can? And what is it that makes you - you?
@zeux
Even more fundamental: Why "write" a blogpost if you don't want to write a blogpost? -
@zeux
Even more fundamental: Why "write" a blogpost if you don't want to write a blogpost?@Doomed_Daniel At this point I would literally take photos of napkins with jotted notes over whatever the LLM produces when you feed the photos in.
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I don’t fully understand the motivation to use LLMs to write blog posts. The loss of personal voice is so striking that it immediately rings alarm bells in my head. You can fact check the output although even that is spotty but you can’t inject the soul back.
And if you stop writing yourself, what makes you think you still can? And what is it that makes you - you?
@zeux I haven't used LLMs for my blog posts yet. But I might use one as a helper for my English. As a non-native speaker, it could help me rephrase sentences, fix awkward wording, and... make things clearer in the end.
The content and the point of the post would still be mine. I wouldn't use it because I don't know what to say or where to start - only to express what I already mean in better English.
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@zeux I haven't used LLMs for my blog posts yet. But I might use one as a helper for my English. As a non-native speaker, it could help me rephrase sentences, fix awkward wording, and... make things clearer in the end.
The content and the point of the post would still be mine. I wouldn't use it because I don't know what to say or where to start - only to express what I already mean in better English.
@zeux And for the "soul" part: I think you can guide it a bit. For example, I could give it a couple of my previous posts and ask it to keep a similar tone and style. I'm pretty sure that could work reasonably well… but I'll have to try.
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@Doomed_Daniel At this point I would literally take photos of napkins with jotted notes over whatever the LLM produces when you feed the photos in.
@zeux if there even were any notes with any thoughts and not just "write a blogpost about XYZ that I can share on LinkedIn"
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@zeux I haven't used LLMs for my blog posts yet. But I might use one as a helper for my English. As a non-native speaker, it could help me rephrase sentences, fix awkward wording, and... make things clearer in the end.
The content and the point of the post would still be mine. I wouldn't use it because I don't know what to say or where to start - only to express what I already mean in better English.
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@zeux I haven't used LLMs for my blog posts yet. But I might use one as a helper for my English. As a non-native speaker, it could help me rephrase sentences, fix awkward wording, and... make things clearer in the end.
The content and the point of the post would still be mine. I wouldn't use it because I don't know what to say or where to start - only to express what I already mean in better English.
@xoofx Using LLMs to fix up grammar is fine, sure. For everything else, I suggest trying first and coming up with your own criteria; my perspective is simple. It's human to err, and we used to think improving your writing is part of the process. Your "awkward wording" is just fine actually.
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@tracefree @xoofx @zeux same, mildly broken English is fine.
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I don’t fully understand the motivation to use LLMs to write blog posts. The loss of personal voice is so striking that it immediately rings alarm bells in my head. You can fact check the output although even that is spotty but you can’t inject the soul back.
And if you stop writing yourself, what makes you think you still can? And what is it that makes you - you?
@zeux
I guess it really depends how you use it.
I usually write the post and ask the LLM to review, make sure it's clear and format.
In my last post, I wrote 300 pages and asked to summarise as a post. Later I did some adjustments and it's done.
Otherwise, I would probably not find time to post anytime soon and, honestly, most times, AI quickly improves the result. Often, AI rewrites parts better than my original writings. -
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