Ask HN: Reading AI Assisted Essays
The article discusses the author's reflections on AI-assisted content creation. They express a preference for essays that show a minimum level of effort from the writer, even if AI tools are used. The author shares their own experience of using AI to enhance their writing while maintaining their personal voice.
- ▪The author is pondering the impact of AI on content creation.
- ▪They prefer AI-assisted essays that reflect effort from the original writer.
- ▪The author uses AI to improve their writing style and make it more engaging.
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Something I've been pondering for a while now is how I feel about AI produced content.I find a lot of essays that are clearly AI assisted but I am able to get a feeling that the person who produced it put time and effort into writing it. My current model is something like:If it feels like AI generated content where I feel a certain minimum amount of effort was made to shape the content, I don't mind reading it.Take, for example, my own. I am quite self conscious about sounding very robotic and using a lot of the same turns of phrase. So I write an article in my voice, then have the droids zhuzh it up for me. Make the text a bit more interesting. Add some sarcasm where I struggled with articulating it. Make the pacing and rhythm nicer.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.