Writing tip: you do not need to have LLMs expand your ideas into a longer form for you. Spreading out your ideas across a longer post does not make them better.
Writing tip: you do not need to have LLMs expand your ideas into a longer form for you. Spreading out your ideas across a longer post does not make them better.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal
Unfortunately with word generators this has become -
I would have written a letter, but I couldn’t be bothered.
third time i see this cliche quote in two days
The quoting will continue until writing improves
The thing is that writing - especially writing well - is fairly hard, and does take time and mental effort. So lazy authors (or wannabe authors) take the shortcut. But the fact remains that most of us do not want to read AI-generated slop, and human-written slop is not much better.
So there is a point to the quote, no matter how many times you've read it. But there is a countering point as well: If you don't have time, don't write. Don't use that as an excuse to get lazy and shove slop at us.
And yet people(?) keep publishing stuff that's too long.
Isn't the original post in Chinese? English is probably llm translated - like the whole blog
No, but it satisfies a number of algorithms that drive traffic to websites better, and there are honestly people who will upvote something that starts strong and is long without reading the whole thing, who wouldn't upvote that same strong start if it wasn't padded with filler to make it look more exhausitive.
Not a fan either but there are real game theoretic reasons to do it.
You think this was written by AI? I'm curious, why? Anytime I'm about to read a long post I generally paste it into a few detectors for sanity, but none of them flagged anything for this one. I read the entirety and thought it was pretty compelling - long maybe, but thoughtful. I appreciated the historical quotes interjected, and didn't find the prose suspect.
Some of the formatting for emphasis and em-dashes looked a bit iffy. It's hard to imagine AI wasn't involved, at least an an editor or to discuss ideas. To be clear, I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with this.
My boss pays me for the lines of code, right?
Maybe you don't understand, if we didn't have LLMs expanding our ideas into longer form we wouldn't have anything to give to LLMs to summarize.
I enjoyed the fact that AI was used to deliver the anti-AI message.
that fewer people will read because it spends pages saying what could be paragraphs
Yeah, I got through about 2/3 of it, then called it quits.
I wonder if the author tried to sit down and read the whole post, from beginning to end in one go? The AI-written posts feel sludgy, like plain oatmeal that's been cooked too long, homogenous and bland.
Yeah it became very wearisome to read. I started skimming about halfway through.