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Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by usaphp on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:43AM (#49372001)
What if English is not your first language and you are afraid of sounding silly when you email or text someone?
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by kuboble on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:56AM (#49372109)
Ask the ai to point out the egregious mistakes only.

Especially today, I will prefer your slightly funny English to something that feels like AI.

And personally I do Support for people around the world and I often ask people to write in their native language.

Then I can translate myself and if the default ai translation gets something wrong I can add necessary context to improve it - which I can't really do if the only thing I get is the bad ai translation.

Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by Ekaros on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:15AM (#49372638)
Don't be. Read it through a few times and fix anything you think needs fixing. Go simpler if needed. You might just use shorter sentences. They are fine. And then you can use some pre-AI tool like Word that has some suggestions.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by alchemism on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:06AM (#49373008)
Don’t use a calculator, either.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by askonomm on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:51AM (#49372068)
How did people do it before AI? Spellchecks have existed forever. Also, people have the ability to improve, so if you offload all your work elsewhere, you will never improve.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by myaccountonhn on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:43AM (#49372004)
How will you learn if you don't practice?
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by Hugsbox on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:33AM (#49372755)
If you respond to me with slightly "off" english, I at least know it was a fellow human who wrote it and I will act accordingly.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by xenocratus on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:46AM (#49372022)
You write your reply and ask the AI to fix the spelling / grammar for you. It's really not the same thing
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by whazor on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:54AM (#49372090)
Create new chat after step 2, then ask AI to fix the spelling / grammar of those three sentences
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by walrus01 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:54AM (#49372093)
خب، در آن صورت، من وقت می گذاشتم و متنی را با دست می نوشتم و دقیقاً همان چیزی را که نوشته بودم از طریق نرم افزار ترجمه ماشینی اجرا می کردم.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by benrutter on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:28AM (#49372328)
Да, тоа изгледа како среќна средина.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by RugnirViking on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:51AM (#49372069)
det sker nogle gange! når man er ny til et sprog, det kan være forskrakkelig at skrive i et professionelt område. Men det er bare en del af dine udvikling - du kan sagtens skrive på hvilken sprog når som helst, og de kan bruge deres værktøj til at forstå det, du siger.

Der skal kom et tid hvor du skal tale på en sprog på dit kontor. Uden hjælp. Du har bruge for at øve dig, og folk er alligevel pænere end du tror.

(this being written in a foreign language I am learning is part of the point)

Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by dragandj on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:59AM (#49372133)
At this point I would hold that silly sounding message in a much higher regard than I would hold AI slop.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by gib444 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:13AM (#49372227)
I also suffer from this! But it's called growth. You will not improve language skills if you are too afraid to practice them

And in my experience, us Brits, and USA folk, we tend to be quite understanding of broken English

Re:Don't Paste the AI, please by jesterson on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:58AM (#49372129)
Use it to rewrite your OWN thoughts, or translate it to english. Not bloat with phrases sounding fancy but carrying no meaning