alt Hacker NewsHumans are just trying to do what Pangram is trying to do: guess what is AI, badly. The post argues against this:
> In the end, shaming people for writing that gets flagged as AI can lead people to sidestep structures the model has learned from us: structures that are effective tools for argumentation. We take the tools of critical thinking out of the kit at the time we most need them.
This is my position with this stuff. It became part of the LLM loop because it’s used a lot- it’s used a lot because it’s effective.
Now we’re going to stop using effective rhetorical methods because they imply AI, even if we know we’re not using AI?
It reminds me of, as a teenager, asking my dad if he ever saw Led Zeppelin live. He hadn’t, because he didn’t really like fans of Led Zeppelin and didn’t want to be associated with them.
As an ashamed fan of certain bands I get this instinct but I also promised to myself when I heard this that I would do my best to not allow other people to influence how I thought about things I enjoyed.
On the same note I’m trying to be “braver” about things like em-dashes, though my personally style has always been to use them as I did in this comment- like this, which I guess distinguishes me, until an LLM picks that up too…