I notice how much cleaner and professional most writing is becoming on the internet. I've also noticed that the average articles seems to have ballooned in size. Seems like every writer suddenly fell in love with emojied bulleted list.
I suspect that the reason for this is that more and more people are using AI to guide their writting. I'm not criticing anyone for doing so, the LLM can almost certainly write better than you ever could.
My own writing is weak. Stylistially I constantly put things in parentheses that should be better expressed as separate thoughts. I loose the tense of the paragraph all the time. I wander around ideas without finishing them. Sometimes I don't even bother to spellcheck. Tons of problems.
But I think that I am going to stick to writing without LLMs. For three principal reasons:
- It is more fun. I feel something bigger when I write something poorly on my own than something better with an LLM.
- It seems to me that it is a better expression of who I am. Most of my writting is simply cataloging (not even reviewing) things that I consume. I enjoy viewing and contrasting past versions of myself against the person who I am today (as someone familiar with the author). If some stranger were to read what I write, I think a poorly penned paragraph of my own is more illustrative of who I am than a better written article enhanced by an LLM.
- It is a small (perhaps token) resistance against the normalization of the world. I'm concerned that the prevalence of LLMs will groupthink us into thinking the same way, acting the same way, believing the same way. Writing (poorly) on my own is a small way to resist that.