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How far do you take this policy?

1. Am I allowed to ask an AI to proofread a draft for grammatical errors?

2. Am I allowed to ask an AI to proofread a draft for technical errors?

3. In both #1 and #2, am I allowed to ask the AI to suggest revisions, or is it only allowed to point out what's wrong and why?

4. If I write a sentence like "Lucy's laughter ___ her underlying anxiety" and I'm having trouble coming up with the right word to fill in the blank, can I give the sentence to an AI and ask it for a list of possible options?

5. While brainstorming, can I use an AI as a souped up rubber duck before I begin writing?

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In general, I think those use cases are fine.

But... AI generated content is a slippery slope. Someone earlier today asked me to "review" a 50 page document they had completely generated with AI yet obviously not reviewed themselves. It is embarrassing.

This happened to me recently at work, I just ignored the request, but I was tempted to feed it to copilot and just send them the response.

Not parent commenter, but my answer is "no to all".

...then I guess my next question would be, why? How do you feel about spellcheck? Should mobile users turn off autocorrect unless they disclose that it's turned on?

I don't really understand your philosophy if you're opposed to an LLM pointing out when someone got the tense wrong.

Who said anything about spellcheck?

GP said they weren't okay with someone using an AI to check for grammatical errors. If they would be okay with using software to check for spelling errors, I'd be interested to know why they're making that distinction. And I'd like to know what they think of autocorrect, which at least on the iPhone uses an on-device LLM nowadays.

"AI" can mean anything with machine learning. Spellchecker can use some sort of machine learning too. But what people mean when they say "AI" is LLM chatbot. But a spellchecker highlights mistakes, it doesn't suggest to rewrite the text arbitrarily like an LLM chatbot. So I totally understand how you can be for one and not other

By the way autocorrect on the iphone got worse recently, bunch of times it "corrected" the word to a wrong one for me

Wow, you’re arguing. What about predictive T9?

Sending someone something that'll take them longer to read than it took you to write is taking the piss.

I think that's a good rule of thumb for AI-generated output.

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