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Wish I didn't feel the need to ask this, but I guess this is where society is.
This isn't written by AI, is it?
It follows the same writing styles, anachronisms, and somewhat nonsensical/half-baked analogies.
"Robots are gravity"...
Plus the business centric writing and strongly formatted text always puts off linkedin alarm bells.
Man, gotta love a machine that puts distrust behind written stuff. Plus using em-dashes. I use hyphens, and while I'm completely incorrect, it has saved me a few times - plus, my writing style is unrefined and the tone is usually a *little* off from perfect.
Have a good day!
@Tanuki another one of their posts is about how AI slop needs to be "harnessed correctly" by real artists. Literally every post looks written by AI...
even like, "personal" stuff, like talking about sports
whoever has the account please know: everyone would rather get your raw unfiltered imperfect *human* content than whatever this is.
Nobody likes slop.
@wavejumper3 @Tanuki I’ve been open for a long time that I use AI for tone checking. I use it because, as an autistic person, it helps me reduce unnecessary conflict and keep conversations stable.
You may prefer unfiltered humanity, but that doesn’t override how I need to communicate. This isn’t about tailoring my voice to someone else’s taste. It’s about writing in a way that actually works for me.
And for me, that means managing interactions with people who aren’t especially concerned about my well-being.
@Tanuki @wavejumper3 you’re just feeding AI slop to your large audience for engagement and clout chasing.
Gross.
@Trevorgoodchild @Tanuki @wavejumper3 Nope, I don’t care about “engagement”. I use AI because it’s my neurotypical co-pilot that keeps everything tonally aligned.
And it works extremely well.
@Tanuki @Trevorgoodchild
So, to verify I'm reading this correctly, more or less,
"While writing to others, my tone has been an issue enough times to warrant using AI. And the use is because others feel my tone is an issue enough for avoiding it outright is worth it, to me"?
Very wordy, but trying to be specific.
"I struggle to judge the tone of my writing and others are often upset by it, so I have AI rewrite what I write to be more tone-appropriate"
I understand that, corporate-friendly writing is impossible for me. Formalities layered on formalities, and having any amount of humanity feel out of place.
I hope you'll find the fediverse/mastodon to be a place where you don't need to do that. About half the people here are autistic, and the other half are likely undiagnosed.
And people come here for that reason! Being unfiltered, messy, sometimes messing up.
I understand why you'd do that, though.
@Tanuki @Trevorgoodchild sorry, yeah.
my phrasing wasn't perfect.
But all of this, I agree on.
I meant more "I understand this, though" as in "as opposed to other things". Trying to differentiate it from things I am not ok with.
Better as "I don't understand or agree with most uses for LLMs. I understand this, though, and agree with it"
and when emphasising other's discomfort that was more because "Disability is a social thing, by itself it is not bad. Its the context we're in".
Not to minimize your issues. I was trying to frame it in terms of why those issues exist, as my follow up relied on those reasons changing not your own discomfort.
I assumed that was clear. It wasn't.
I feel we should all try and be as charitable as possible with reading what others mean, we often attach a bunch of stuff the person didn't mean. I do that.
It's often exhausting to engage like this. Usually the other person doesn't care. But I feel like telling you this will help you feel better, and understood.
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@bookandswordblog Yes, I use AI. I’ve used it for years. And no, I’m not going back to “raw, unfiltered” writing because AI saves me an enormous amount of pain and grief.
I’ve explained this before. Consider this yet another entry in that series:
atomicpoet.org/notice/B0kN6P79…
Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)
Everyone who follows me knows I use AI to help manage tone. I’ve been transparent about that from the start.It’s not that I can’t write everything myself. I can, and it’s easy. It’s that I delibera...atomicpoet.org
WTL
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I'd argue all posts written by #AI should be clearly labeled as such, maybe with a hashtag so they can be easily filtered.
I'd never let AI touch my words. My thoughts, my voice is the only thing that differentiates me from others.
When someone puts AI-written slop in front of me, I know not to value it, nor believe what it says is actually what the person meant. There's a long post about this eventually, but I have some other things to tackle today.
Chris Trottier
in reply to WTL • • •@WTL A hashtag doesn’t communicate intention with any clarity. It can’t tell someone, “I use AI to calibrate tone because I’m autistic and it helps with accessibility.” It simply can’t carry that nuance.
You absolutely have the right to your preferences, and I respect that. I also suspect those preferences come from how you think, how you communicate, and the experiences that shape your relationship to writing.
But it’s worth considering that other people’s lives and needs are different. Their experiences colour their assumptions too—especially around purpose and intention. For some of us, these tools aren’t shortcuts. They’re what make participation possible.