Rick Lewis wrote on Substack:
"If you read a lot of work on Substack you can see it creeping in everywhere. Authors I’ve been subscribed to for years are making the decision to “get a little help” from AI, polish things up a bit, speed up the process, and you can see it and feel it. The tells are subtle until they’re not. And then you just get sad about what is happening.
In the individual case of each writer, I’m sure it feels like an improvement. En masse it is the enshittification of communication".
Great term—”enshittification of communication”. The same is done with pictures, which become glorious glamourous golden shift. Still… I am Russian and I live in Russia. (I am pacifist and so I am against Russian war in Ukraine, as well as I am against American-Israely wars in Iran and Livan.) I am 69, I am a historian, my knowledge of English is… Well, this very text I write without LLM. Will You advise me not to use it at all? Actually, I don’t adress American of British audience. I write to those men and women on the planet who are interested in my ideas, and I am afraid that pacifism, humanism, cosmopolitism are not very popular nowadays… Some of my potential readers can be averted from by text because of the ugly style and grammar mystakes. So… To AI or not to AI…
Here goes this text edited by ChatGTP with a strict order to fix ONLY grammar and orphograhy.
Great term—“enshittification of communication”. The same is done with pictures, which become a glorious, glamorous golden shift.
Still… I am Russian, and I live in Russia. (I am a pacifist, and so I am against the Russian war in Ukraine, as well as against American-Israeli wars in Iran and Lebanon.) I am 69, I am a historian, and my knowledge of English is… Well, I wrote this very text without an LLM.
Would You advise me not to use it at all? Actually, I don’t address an American or British audience. I write to those men and women on the planet who are interested in my ideas, and I am afraid that pacifism, humanism, and cosmopolitanism are not very popular nowadays…
Some of my potential readers may be deterred by my text because of its awkward style and grammatical mistakes.
So… To AI or not to AI?
ChatGTP suggested to fix "critical mystakes." For example, it didn't like "averted". OK, here we go:
"Great term—“enshittification of communication”. The same is done with pictures, which become a glorious glamorous golden shift.
Still… I am Russian and I live in Russia. (I am a pacifist and so I am against the Russian war in Ukraine, as well as against American-Israeli wars in Iran and Lebanon.) I am 69, I am a historian, my knowledge of English is… Well, this very text I write without an LLM.
Would You advise me not to use it at all? Actually, I don’t address an American or British audience. I write to those men and women on the planet who are interested in my ideas, and I am afraid that pacifism, humanism, cosmopolitanism are not very popular nowadays…
Some of my potential readers may be deterred by my text because of its style and grammatical takes.
So… To AI or not to AI?