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I've seen a few people use ai to rewrite things, and the change from their writing style to a more "polished" generic LLM style feels very strange. A great averaging and evening out of future writing seems like a bad outcome to me.

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I sometimes go in the opposite direction - generate LLM output and then rewrite it in my own words

The LLM helps me gather/scaffold my thoughts, but then I express them in my own voice

that's a perfect use, imhno, of AI-assisted writing. Someone (er-something) to help you bounce ideas, and organize....

I do something similar: give it a bunch of ideas I have or a general point form structure, have it help me simplify and organize those notes into something more structured, then I write it out myself.

It's a fantastic editor!

This is exactly how I use them too! What I usually do is give the LLM bullet points or an outline of what I want to say, let it generate a first attempt at it, and then reshape and rewrite what I don’t like (which is often most of it). I think, more than anything, it just helps me to quickly get past that “staring at a blank page” stage.

Yeah, if anything it might make sense to do the opposite. Use LLMs to do research, ruthlessly verify everything, validate references and help you guide you in some structure, but then actually write your own words manually with your little fingers and using your brain.

Are you joking? The facts and references are the part we know it will hallucinate.

You can check the references.

I had to write a difficult paragraph that I talked through with copilot. I think it made one sentence I liked but found GPTZero caught it. I would up with 100% sentences I wrote but that I reviewed extensively with Copilot and two people.

I have an opinion of people that have opinions on AI

It's not them, it's you.

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