I agree that content spinning garbage is harmful to society.
But... someone who has English as a second language being able to write a letter to an organization that still insists on written letters for things feels like a big win to me.
The open question for me is if the positive applications of ChatGPT-for-writing will outweigh the negative applications. I'm currently still optimistic.
> being able to write a letter to an organization that still insists on written letters for things
Maybe I'm especially attuned to this due to my personal biases, but I see a lot of cases where AI is the "solution" to a problem that shouldn't exist.
A real nuisance from my dayjob involves using AI to parse information out of PDF datasheets. If manufacturers would provide machine-readable datasheets, we could simply write code. But no, they for some reason only provide awfully-formatted PDFs at best, forcing the burden onto everyone aside from themselves, the people who have the data already.
It's wonderful that we can make AI do this tedious and difficult data entry work now. But the problem should not exist in the first place.
Yeah, absolutely. I expect we'll increasingly notice that LLMs are being applied as stop-gap solutions to problems that would ideally be solved some other way.
Absolutely. I'm thinking mostly of the things "professional writers" complain about; I think "professional writers" are, for the most part, in the right about this stuff.
I agree that content spinning garbage is harmful to society.
But... someone who has English as a second language being able to write a letter to an organization that still insists on written letters for things feels like a big win to me.
The open question for me is if the positive applications of ChatGPT-for-writing will outweigh the negative applications. I'm currently still optimistic.