We are turning into subscription slaves (2023)

Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by LargeTomato on Thursday January 04, 2024 @06:39AM (#38865790)

I promise you I did not! But I have recently started changing my "prose" to be more clear, layering information thoughtfully, and spending more words on filler (e.g. The Author Suggests). I definitely learned part of it from reading chat gpt. I like it better than some of the more math-y or academic writing which I will sometimes use but only if I need to be hyper specific.

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Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by jeroenhd on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:33AM (#38866197)

I fear for the future where every comment that has been composed with some thought will be branded as ChatGPT generated.

I know most of those suspicions will be correct if they aren't already, but I'm still not very happy about it.

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Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by bityard on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:45AM (#38866325)

It's not the amount of thought that brands it as something that could be mistaken for a chatgpt emission. Rather, chatgpt writing has a very formulaic style that is hard not to instantly recognize once you have seen it a few times.

It's not super surprising to me that people who use it frequently begin to unconsciously imitate the chatgpt style in their own writing after a time.

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Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by LargeTomato on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:36AM (#38867476)

It makes my job at writer much easier. If I don't want to think about prose I can copy chat gpt and get 80% of the way there with very little effort. Most stuff I write is for my coworkers or Hacker News so I don't mind. When I write for fun or for my family I like to be more thoughtful.

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Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by bityard on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:34AM (#38866205)

Congratulations, you have passed the inverse Turing test

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Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by WirelessGigabit on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:24AM (#38868869)

I don't like it. Now I need to parse much more before I get to the interesting part.

It seems that ChatGPT learned from Recipes webpages. Include a story on how the author's parents had sex on a beach in Maui which sparked the author's desire for Mango Passion Fruit Cakes.

In fact, just like I have a limited amount of keystrokes in my lifetime (which incidentally I'm spending on this post) I have a limited amount of time to go through text.

Soon I'll start skipping the longer ones.

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Re:We are turning into subscription slaves (2023) by LargeTomato on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:54AM (#38869295)

I used to agree with you, and to an extent I still do, but being able to carry the reader through the text by providing filler makes my writing appear more clear even if it's actually has lower information density.

I do this with speaking, too. I used to be a bit of an abrasive engineer and just "tell it like it is" but after hitting a communication wall I started to coddle the listener and people really like it. I personally think it's unfortunate but it is what it is.

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