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CB's avatar

Good article. Multiple spelling and grammar mistakes in the “not-AI” portions are ironic. Intentional Mr. McLean?

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

Not intentional, but they do take on a new light now, don't they?

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Ken Ryan's avatar

The basic problem is most people *don't* *care* if AI writes well or not. If the article gets written and published management is happy and that's all that matters. What information or entertainment gets passed is a distant second.

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Patrick E McLean's avatar

I think you mean to say, "if the article gets clicked, management is happy." But I think the recent death or sharp decline of companies/sites built on that model puts paid to that idea. Most recently VICE media.

But I'm not sure why most people should care about good writing. Just because I like it, doesn't mean everyone should. The majority of people like some kinds of Sportsball and I couldn't care less. I don't have to make them wrong for liking it to be right. Do I?

My only point here is that some people are hallucinating that AI can write well, and it can't. Human-in-the-loop, it's a tremendous too for writing. But from everything I can see, it's useless on it's own.

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Ken Ryan's avatar

That includes. BTW, whether AI is writing factual information or complete hallucinations. Most people don't give a fk so long as their pre-existing biases are reinforced.

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