Subj : Re: Writing with LLMs
To   : Bob Worm
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Sep 17 2025 08:32 pm

  Re: Re: Writing with LLMs
  By: Bob Worm to Dmxrob on Wed Sep 17 2025 08:23 am

 > It worries me how much I see people depending on ChatGPT - people in work,
 > people I sit next to on the train, university professors... I feel like my
 > brain is rusting up enough from age without speeding it up by outsourcing my
 > thought to a machine as well.
 >

I don't see that much people using it actively, other than for entertainment. Some friends of mine use it to generate boilerplate code or unit tests, but they always have to fix it themselves, so it is not like they are letting the computer do all the work blindly.

 > I was recently involved in a tender to be allowed to sell into certain types
 > of public sector organisations - the instructions for applicants stated in
 > bold type that using ChatGPT / LLMs for *any* part of your response would
 > result in immediate rejection. You still get people saying "oh well let's
 > get ChatGPT to write an answer then we can just edit it". Give me strength!

I don't think it is bad to have a computer generate some ideas for you to work on. Copyediting computer output, however, is outright cheating.


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