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0 pointsbeepbooptheory3y ago0 comments

Without saying one thing or another about the bots ability or propriety, I'd still argue that if the burden of summarizing succinctly something you wrote is so great that you need to pull out high-powered AI technology to do it, you should probably should spend some more time thinking about what you are writing.

Who cares about pure velocity if you are really trying to communicate something? We shouldn't measure written word by pure word count, or how quickly you can ship it. Not everything needs to be just some kind of hyper-advertising.

Just gives the impression they only care so much about what they wrote, that they only care so much about their readers!

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davibu3y ago

I am the author of the post. The reason is that English is not my native language, and summarizing is very resource-consuming for me, much more than if I had to do it in my native language. But I take note of the antagonistic aspect and I will make sure to rewrite the summary ;)

IanCal3y ago

FWIW, I'm a native English speaker and I've used ChatGPT to copy edit my own text to good effect, as well as both summarising and expanding on topics. If it helps you, I hope you don't feel the need to avoid using a useful tool.

If it's causing issues, you can remove mentions of it (I know there's also a desire to call out when it's not your own words entirely though). I'd only feel the need to explicitly say it was from a model if I'd not reviewed it - to make sure if it said something wrong it was clear to readers I'd not approved it.

I'd like it if it was more accepted though and it's a shame this has come up as a discussion.

beepbooptheoryOP3y ago

Well you should know that you're writing is just fine as it is! Definitely understand and appreciate your motives here either way. I don't agree with the fellow commenters that this alone is enough to dismiss the entire thing, its not that big of a deal one way or another.

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