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I've just seen a friend's post on FB marketplace to rent out one of his apartments. It was full of grammar mistakes and oddly placed information. ChatGPT would probably have done a much better job so as long as the generated text is supervised. As long as the generated content is useful, we are probably better off.

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True but possibly quite short-termist.

Maybe your friend would be better off initially in that his post would be more legible. But a better solution for the human race would be for him to attend English writing classes rather than perpetuate reliance on machines to the point when, one day, nobody will lean to write coherently at all.

But if we all rely on machines perpetually and our English comprehension skills degrade, we won't recognize if a post is written poorly. We just need standards to slip more, then all of our writing will be "good".

The same argument could be made about calculators, or slide rules for that matter.

Yes, it could - and should! We shouldn't give up on teaching maths because of calculators.

We didn't. But we did give up on teaching a lot of outdated manual computation techniques, because they aren't broadly relevant anymore.

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