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0 pointsstingraycharles8h ago0 comments

> I often send out the LLM version, but still check if it contains the original thoughts correctly.

Please don’t do this. You probably aren’t aware of how bad this can land. It’s not just about containing your original thoughts, it’s about the verbosity, repetitiveness, and absurdity of it all.

Grammarly is a much better tool for these kinds of purposes, and it actually guides and teaches you to improve your writing along the way.

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__mharrison__4h ago

The irony that this response has a very common LLMism...

adastra227h ago

Grammarly the honeypot?

stingraycharlesOP5h ago

You seem to be referring to something specific I’m not aware of, could you elaborate?

A Google search didn’t reveal anything specific other than them using famous author names for expert review.

adastra225h ago

It's the nature of the product itself. It's a key logger software. That's literally what it does -- take every input on your computer and route it to their servers.

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anon848736284h ago

Verbosity and repetitiveness? Which tools are you using?

Tell it that you want a succinct professional email and it will do that. Give it examples of your own writing and it will match that style. If there's something you don't like, tell it to rewrite the part differently.

Theses are literally the things language models are best at.

stingraycharlesOP4h ago

> Tell it that you want a succinct professional email and it will do that. Give it examples of your own writing and it will match that style.

This is not what the parent I replied to indicated, nor what people usually do.

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