RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116556544453224250

This was a good read and captures pretty well a feeling that I've been experiencing but didn't know how to put into words.

Some other thoughts:

1. One lesson drilled into me in high school English class is that the quality of your writing depends heavily on the breadth and quality of what you read. The kids who read more also wrote better. To some extent, nothing our English teachers taught us in class about writing could surpass the advantage of regularly and widely reading for the decade before we even got to high school.

This is one reason why I don't use AI for writing or summarizing at all, ever. You are what you eat. If what you're eating all the time is AI-generated, even if it's an AI revision of your own writing, even if you're just "reviewing" it so that you can "put it in your own voice" later, it is inevitable that your writing will tend towards mush.

1. Detecting any sign of AI-assisted writing in a piece is an immediate extreme negative signal for me, and makes me distrust the writing even if the information turns out to be true and valid. It's good to see (per the study mentioned in the article) that other people feel similarly.

#noAI