I agree that academic language should be avoided in both forums and research papers.
It might be a good idea for forum writers to use a tool like ChatGPT to make their posts more readable before posting them. For example, they can ask ChatGPT to “improve the readability” of their text. This way, writers don’t have to change their writing style too much and can avoid feeling uncomfortable while writing. Plus, it saves time by not having to go back and edit clunky sentences. Additionally, by asking ChatGPT to include more slang or colloquial language, the tool can better match the writer’s preferred style. (Written with the aid of ChatGPT in exactly the way I proposed. :p)
From my playing with it, ChatGPT uses complex language even when told not to.
In notion, there’s a AI assistant (GPT3 based) and it has a “simplify writing” feature. The outputs were still pretty verbose and had overly long sentences. Soon though, sure!
I dunno, encouraging people to use an AI tool rather than improve their writing seems a bit like a parent encouraging their child to just keep using training wheels, because it’s easier.
I agree that academic language should be avoided in both forums and research papers.
It might be a good idea for forum writers to use a tool like ChatGPT to make their posts more readable before posting them. For example, they can ask ChatGPT to “improve the readability” of their text. This way, writers don’t have to change their writing style too much and can avoid feeling uncomfortable while writing. Plus, it saves time by not having to go back and edit clunky sentences. Additionally, by asking ChatGPT to include more slang or colloquial language, the tool can better match the writer’s preferred style. (Written with the aid of ChatGPT in exactly the way I proposed. :p)
From my playing with it, ChatGPT uses complex language even when told not to. In notion, there’s a AI assistant (GPT3 based) and it has a “simplify writing” feature. The outputs were still pretty verbose and had overly long sentences. Soon though, sure!
Most output I’ve seen from ChatGPT has been horrendously verbose
As far as I can recall, my paragraphs are usually about half as long when I ask ChatGPT to simplify.
That said, I tend to write in an academic style.
+1 for using ChatGPT. I’ve also been using this.
Similarly, I hope that GPT could later be used to customized text to whatever background the reader has, on-demand.
Jargon is great for some people but terrible for others.
I dunno, encouraging people to use an AI tool rather than improve their writing seems a bit like a parent encouraging their child to just keep using training wheels, because it’s easier.
Sure, if your goal is to be a good writer! But, I’m not worried about that. I just want people to understand me.
I don’t see how encouraging people to use AI tools really means discouraging them to try to improve writing.
There are many cases where I find AI tools help me become a better writer. It can be like having a personalized tutor.
I disagree about 1. About 2, I agree but that doesn’t seem to me to be what Jonas is aiming for.
I agree that (2) wasn’t Jonas’s aim.