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0 pointsspacedcowboy1y ago0 comments

No-one is forcing you to.

Not everyone who has the knowledge of how to put together a radio telescope is also awesome at creating a website. It seems everyone is a critic, these days…

And if you don’t think that having an appealing website is at least as important as the content within when doing outreach, I may have a bridge to sell you.

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multjoy1y ago

They don't need to be awesome, they just need to write their own words.

If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?

lucb1e1y ago

> what else have they handed over to an LLM?

A version in their own language or with lots of spelling mistakes that take people out of the story as well

(Charitably, that is)

Xss31y ago

ChatGPT is a better writer than me. Simple as that. It takes my words and ideas and communicates them more effectively.

They're still my words and ideas being fed to it. It just transforms them into something others enjoy reading. It asks me questions I forgot to answer. Etc.

multjoy1y ago

No it doesn't. It makes them average. It regresses as far as it can to the mean because that's what it does.

It has no creativity, it cannot think. It has no idea what is right, only that it can make your input look like the corpus of data that it has been trained on.

If you think that's better, then that's your look out.

nullc1y ago

I find ChatGPT is a fairly mediocre writer: It uses a lot of overwrought and exaggerated language that becomes fatiguing rather quickly.

It's also frequently used by fraudsters and in spam, so you run a real risk of 'your' writing style giving unintended impressions when you rely on it.

Xss31y ago

When I say it's a better writer...I really mean it's a faster writer. It's a tool. You can ask for 15 variations on a sentence, ask it to be more or less concise, or to tailor it to a certain audience. Ask it for 5 ways to communicate a stronger feeling of X. Etc.

If you just blindly ask it to write it isn't great. It has far greater writing ability than I do but it doesn't know what's good and what isn't, it needs guidance.

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multjoy1y ago

They don't need to be awesome, they just need to write their own words.

If someone can't be bothered to write the copy for their project, what else have they handed over to an LLM?

lucb1e1y ago

> what else have they handed over to an LLM?

A version in their own language or with lots of spelling mistakes that take people out of the story as well

(Charitably, that is)

Xss31y ago

ChatGPT is a better writer than me. Simple as that. It takes my words and ideas and communicates them more effectively.

They're still my words and ideas being fed to it. It just transforms them into something others enjoy reading. It asks me questions I forgot to answer. Etc.

multjoy1y ago

No it doesn't. It makes them average. It regresses as far as it can to the mean because that's what it does.

It has no creativity, it cannot think. It has no idea what is right, only that it can make your input look like the corpus of data that it has been trained on.

If you think that's better, then that's your look out.

nullc1y ago

I find ChatGPT is a fairly mediocre writer: It uses a lot of overwrought and exaggerated language that becomes fatiguing rather quickly.

It's also frequently used by fraudsters and in spam, so you run a real risk of 'your' writing style giving unintended impressions when you rely on it.

Xss31y ago

If you just blindly ask it to write it isn't great. It has far greater writing ability than I do but it doesn't know what's good and what isn't, it needs guidance.

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