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> Theoritically yes. In practice:

I get the feeling this is the whole disconnect. People have high expectations from AI but haven't really been on the receiving end of a massive amount of text/code generated by it.

We recently had someone fired for using AI excessively. Before the firing, whenever anyone on the team sat down to give feedback, the only answer was "but everyone is using AI, we are supposed to use AI, how can it be bad?".

Until their boss sat down and forced them to read the verbal diarrhea and they finally admitted that it was 90% hallucinations and AI-filling-the-blanks.



Yes, so the issue here was not AI but a lack of competence, prudence, integrity, responsibility, discernment etc.

It's the equivalent of vibe coding vs Ai assisted coding.

Vibe writing vs AI assisted writing.


Maybe you’re defending something that nobody here has a problem with.

Using AI to rephrase things is perfectly fine.


What? This entire thread and the OP and comment I originally replied to is people saying that Ai shouldn't be used for writing...


I was agreeing! You said it yourself: "Vibe writing vs AI assisted writing".

The people complaining are talking about vibe-writing or heavily-AI-assisted writing.

EDIT: My point is, most people taking the "anti-AI" stance here wouldn't have a problem with Grammarly or AI to double-check spelling. It's a gradient.

EDIT 2: I wrote a lot of stuff without double-checking. Just editing to clarify what I mean. :D


> What? This entire thread and the OP and comment I originally replied to is people saying that Ai shouldn't be used for writing...

No, the entire thread is literally called "Don't Paste the AI, please".

That's not the same as "Never use AI on your way to writing what you need conveyed".




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