I really like the ideas but I was turned off by the style. Bereft of human voice. The almost pseudointellectual phrasing like “external-facing touchpoints”, the repetitive “it wasn’t X it was Y” and sloppy metaphors. AI wrote this.
I’m continuing to highlight this issue because I’m scared of the forum becoming the next generic slopfest like Linkedin. the ideas in this post are fantastic, but I don’t think its good for the forum or the community to have AI writing posts. Its a shame if great ideas and great posts to be flattened and mitigated by the hollow voice of AI
You’re right that I used AI tools, and I did mention that transparently in the post itself. I mainly use them to help with research and copy-editing, but the ideas are my own.
I appreciate the point about the style as well. I’ll try to edit more carefully next time 🙂
Thanks I appreciate the response and the comment so much. I still think its best to write things ourselves and then let AI do some editing (even if extensive). That way we retain at least some of our own voice. But I know there’s a wide range of views on this as I saw on my poll (was about 60⁄40 people not wanting AI writing most of posts).
I felt a similar way—I see so much AI text online that I actually struggle to read it when I see it. However I also see that there are a lot of other readers who don’t have this reaction, so take this with a pinch of salt. If you’re looking for tips at all, I’d recommend:
a) Taking a post like this as your penultimate draft, and then writing a much shorter post in your own words based on it. OR... b) Making sure your system prompt contains a distilled version of this page as a ‘what not to do’. This is the quickest way to ensure your text doesn’t come across as too AI-written.
Also—thanks for disclosing the LLM use, that made me trust the content much more.
Quick tip: just run your draft through Claude and ask it to either give feedback in the style of an EA Forum user or, if you’re short on time, ask it to rewrite it in the style that EA Forum readers prefer (and make sure you have plenty of reasoning transparency).
I really like the ideas but I was turned off by the style. Bereft of human voice. The almost pseudointellectual phrasing like “external-facing touchpoints”, the repetitive “it wasn’t X it was Y” and sloppy metaphors. AI wrote this.
I’m continuing to highlight this issue because I’m scared of the forum becoming the next generic slopfest like Linkedin. the ideas in this post are fantastic, but I don’t think its good for the forum or the community to have AI writing posts. Its a shame if great ideas and great posts to be flattened and mitigated by the hollow voice of AI
Hi, thanks for the feedback.
You’re right that I used AI tools, and I did mention that transparently in the post itself. I mainly use them to help with research and copy-editing, but the ideas are my own.
I appreciate the point about the style as well. I’ll try to edit more carefully next time 🙂
Thanks I appreciate the response and the comment so much. I still think its best to write things ourselves and then let AI do some editing (even if extensive). That way we retain at least some of our own voice. But I know there’s a wide range of views on this as I saw on my poll (was about 60⁄40 people not wanting AI writing most of posts).
Thanks for taking this so well Anna!
I felt a similar way—I see so much AI text online that I actually struggle to read it when I see it. However I also see that there are a lot of other readers who don’t have this reaction, so take this with a pinch of salt.
If you’re looking for tips at all, I’d recommend:
a) Taking a post like this as your penultimate draft, and then writing a much shorter post in your own words based on it. OR...
b) Making sure your system prompt contains a distilled version of this page as a ‘what not to do’. This is the quickest way to ensure your text doesn’t come across as too AI-written.
Also—thanks for disclosing the LLM use, that made me trust the content much more.
Quick tip: just run your draft through Claude and ask it to either give feedback in the style of an EA Forum user or, if you’re short on time, ask it to rewrite it in the style that EA Forum readers prefer (and make sure you have plenty of reasoning transparency).