At the risk of retracting from the really cool project, I notice that a lot of highlighted phrases in a text is indicative of an LLM writer. Not that I have anything against that.
Not everyone who has the knowledge of how to put together a radio telescope is also awesome at creating a website. It seems everyone is a critic, these days…
And if you don’t think that having an appealing website is at least as important as the content within when doing outreach, I may have a bridge to sell you.
If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?
A version in their own language or with lots of spelling mistakes that take people out of the story as well
(Charitably, that is)
They're still my words and ideas being fed to it. It just transforms them into something others enjoy reading. It asks me questions I forgot to answer. Etc.
It has no creativity, it cannot think. It has no idea what is right, only that it can make your input look like the corpus of data that it has been trained on.
If you think that's better, then that's your look out.
It's also frequently used by fraudsters and in spam, so you run a real risk of 'your' writing style giving unintended impressions when you rely on it.
If you just blindly ask it to write it isn't great. It has far greater writing ability than I do but it doesn't know what's good and what isn't, it needs guidance.
I write a first draft, AI revises it, I rework a second draft, AI revises it, then I curate a final draft. That's my typical AI-enhanced writing process. AI can even provide multiple variations of each revision, from which I incorporate the best content from each back into my own writing.
The combination of my ability to pick what's good and AI's ability to quickly come up with numerous options creates a better result than I could on my own with a similar amount of effort.
Does the value of written content come from it being written by a human, or the fact that it's enjoyable to read and/or transfers useful information/knowledge? Whether a person wrote it or not is irrelevant. It's almost like complaining someone used a typewriter instead of hand writing something.
If you're content with that, then bully for you. The rest of us want words written by humans.
I've also seen this on human texts, but only quite long ago