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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 10 Apr \ parent \ on: An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force BooksAndArticles
You can outsource what you want and how much you want to AI.
A blog post can be anything from entirely written by AI (prompt: "Come up with an interest topic and write a blog post on it.") to written by you and the spelling being corrected by AI (which is great if you're dyslexic).
I like to write what I like to think of as wholly out of my brain, but use AI for research and fact checking, which before AI I'd have used a non-LLM-based (but still somewhat smart, and increasingly so) search engine for.
One of the things that makes me uncomfortable is that it's often hard to tell to what extent AI was used.
I've recently butted heads with a good friend when I realized his messages for me were LLM output. I felt offended at first, because my first thought was that the level of effort I was putting into the communication wasn't reciprocated; that he was going the easy route and not even reading my messages; that he was being lazy.
He explained that it was all his own thoughts, and the LLM was just an aid to express them more clearly. I appreciated his explaining himself, because it made me think, but also told him I didn't need that, that he was clear enough without it. But then there is nothing I can do; he'll continue to use it, and maybe one day I'll start using it for that purpose too, just like in the 1990s I might have sworn never to use a mobile phone.
Another thing that makes me uncomfortable is that the content goes through the Big Tech. Unless you self-host, which my friend doesn't; he's not even tech-savvy enough to know that DeepSeek's advantage is in it being smaller and therefore self-hostable, and has zero concern about passing his communication with me through the CCP.