It is lazy. It will be sloppy, shoddily made garbage.
The shame is entirely on the one who chose to use the slop machine in the first place.
I laugh at all these desperate “AI good!” articles. Maybe the bubble will pop sooner than I thought.
Its gonna suck. Because of course they’re gonna get bailed out. It’s gonna be “too big to fail” all over again.
Because “national security” or some such nonsense.
The way I see it is, the usefulness of straight LLM generated text is indirectly proportional to the importance of the work. If someone is asking for text for the sake of text and can’t be convinced otherwise, give 'em slop.
But I also feel that properly trained & prompted LLM generated text is a force multiplier when combined with revision and fact checking, also varying indirectly proportional with experience and familiarity with the topic.
Uh, yes. Yes it is.
If it’s not shameful, why not disclose it?
Regardless, I see its uses in providing structure for those who have issues expressing themselves competently, but not in providing content, and you should always check all the sources that the LLM quotes to make sure it’s not just nonsense. Basically, if someone else (or even yourself with a bit more time) could’ve written it, I guess it’s “okay”.
if that task is offloaded to spicy autocomplete, all and any learning of this skill is avoided, so it’s not mega useful
That presumes that is how people are using AI. I use it all the time, but AI never replaces my own judgement or voice. It’s useful. It’s not life-changing.
Back to in-class essays!
It’s going to be plagiarism so yes, it is.
I’ve asked Copilot at work for word help. I’ll ask out something like, what’s a good word that sounds more professional than some other word? And it’ll give me a few choices and I’ll pick one. But that’s about it.
They’re useful, but I won’t let them do my work for me, or give them anything they can use (we have a corporate policy against that, and yet IT leaves Copilot installed/doesn’t switch to something like Linux).
You could also just use a literal thesaurus. That way, you’re using your own mind to choose a synonym rather than plagiarizing an LLM’s word choice.
By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.
Imagine if the AI bots learn to target and prioritize content not generated by AI (if they aren’t already). Labeling your content as organic makes it so much more appetizing for bots.
Ha, fuck yeah it is.
Lol. Lmao.
