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Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal)'s avatar

When I was a dean I told my writing faculty in 2022 that their job would utterly change with ChatGPT. They thought they would become more important. I said sure but differently important. Their jobs would go back to being about grammar and structure and prosody, not "how do you feel in words." I mostly believed it when I said it; I wholly believe it now.

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Tom White's avatar

Totally agree with you. The devil's in the details and only by paying attention to them can you discern the nuts and bolts that are the remnants of machine-crafted writing

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Kylee's avatar

Wow this exactly is what I noticed myself, especially when i picked up AI-isms. I was baffled when I started noticing that my own speech was mimicking what I heard on social media or when my writing started sounding robotic because I was reading so much produced by ai. I feel like I am still retraining myself to sound human again

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Tom White's avatar

It's really scary. Garbage in, garbage out is a rule of life, I fear.

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