Re:Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
by andersco on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @10:59AM
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This seems like too much of an absolutist stance regarding AI. AI is a tool and as such has both good and bad uses. For example, maybe I have something I feel important to share with the world but I am not a very good writer. If AI can help me express my own ideas more clearly and clean up my grammar, that to me is a great use of AI. On the contrary, letting AI just churn out articles wholesale to me would be an abuse rather than good use. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that also is consistent with Medium’s policy.
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Re:Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:04AM
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Medium's policy does allow accounts where AI can churn out articles wholesale, they just can't monetized. And the author does make the point that he would rather read imperfect human writing than AI assisted or otherwise 'the flaws make the personality'.
I think it's a personal stance so the degree of absoluteness doesn't matter. It's what he prefers.
We can tell him it's too harsh when he feels the pinch of cutting of all writers using LLMs. As far as use of LLMs to clean up ones language usage is concerned, there's a difference between editing the content it generates, and learning grammar patterns and word usages from it and applying them while writing on your own. When the latter is done, no one can tell.
Re:Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
by coding123 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:01AM
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Some things that may seem simple may actually be the cause of some people's demise.
Re:Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
by vouaobrasil on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:35PM
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I don't really think AI actually helps people express their ideas. I think it makes them less human and so it's not even them expressing ideas any more.