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oasisbobyesterday at 5:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

> AI is perfectly suited to fixing this problem. I recently spent several hours rewriting a somewhat important article. I did not add or subtract information from the article, I simply made it clearer and more concise.

I'm confused by this. Is this written by an AI?

> Repetition and redundancy, ambiguity, illogical ordering of content, rambling sentences, opaque grammar.

This pile of words is missing a verb.

"You" (whoever that is, human or not) edited a single article, and that experience convinced you that "AI is perfectly suited to fixing this problem"?

Ironically, the lack of evidence to support such a strong assertion is one of the key problems with AI writing in general.

The idea that you could edit an article extensively without adding or subtracting information is facile. I would love to see this edit.


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bluebarbetyesterday at 7:03 PM

Hard to explain the hostility here. I simply outlined my opinion ("take") and backed it up with reasons. I have been a Wikipedia editor for well over 20 years. That should not be relevant to my argument.

ragazzinayesterday at 6:26 PM

> This pile of words is missing a verb.

And yet is completely understandable.