Mostly not. I am a fan of the em-dash, which a lot of people now see as absolute evidence of LLM usage. I occasionally think about swapping it out if I’m desperate not to be mixed up with an LLM, but in principle, I don’t really care if someone thinks I used an LLM to help me write something or not.
I work with a lot of non-native English speakers (with English as a lingua franca) and I’m more than happy for them to use LLMs to help them phrase their thoughts in a way that I can understand more easily.
I also sometimes use LLMs myself for low-stakes stuff, tidying up sloppy notes, etc.
I think it’s a bit Ludditical to want people to always write every word themselves. Should they also hand write it using a quill pen and ink they made themselves from oak galls?
There are some types of writing (creative writing, writing to persuade, etc) where the writing itself benefits from being hand crafted, but most writing is just an imperfect way of sharing thoughts.
But is it their thoughts? Another problem with LLMs is that while it sometimes can produce a better english phrasing of what they were thinking, other times it could be something conceptually different that they didn't catch because of thier english isn't proficient enough to see it, or worse case, they are just lazy and write broad vague prompts and accept whatever blob of text comes out.
I use it sometimes where I just write a stream of conciouness for describing how we can solve a Jira ticket. Then I let LLM edit it. It doesnt add anything or remove any pount. It just moves things around and make the text more clear by rephrasing it.
Not a day goes by where I don't mourn the desecration of the em-dash, but its frustrating for people that write “authentcally” (referring to academic work) to get accused of AI writing, when something is well phrased and carefully thought out. I do agree on the fact that its quite Luddite to expect people to slave away at a document outside of an academic context, using AI does make you much more efficient
I use em-dash all the time — and wish now I had not read that it is popular with AI. (I don't suppose I'll change though, for some dumb reason I like parens as well. Mimic me there, AI.)
Em-dash fan here as well. I've been watering down my use of the em-dash, because I don't want folk to think that my (always self-written) business emails, etc are a chatGPT job.
I work with a lot of non-native English speakers (with English as a lingua franca) and I’m more than happy for them to use LLMs to help them phrase their thoughts in a way that I can understand more easily.
I also sometimes use LLMs myself for low-stakes stuff, tidying up sloppy notes, etc.
I think it’s a bit Ludditical to want people to always write every word themselves. Should they also hand write it using a quill pen and ink they made themselves from oak galls?
There are some types of writing (creative writing, writing to persuade, etc) where the writing itself benefits from being hand crafted, but most writing is just an imperfect way of sharing thoughts.