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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week agoHonestly, I found value in asking an LLM to paraphrase press releases I was rewriting. It just saved me from accidentally plagiarizing. It was pretty grueling, as I quickly learned that feeding in a full story yields wildly inappropriate results, so I reverted to a graf at a time. Within that scope, one can check against errors; asking it to paraphrase entire DOE releases was worse than an abject failure.
It’s a tool. You aren’t using a hammer for a situation that calls for a screwdriver. People are being stupid about this basic understanding.
leigh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
That word “accidentally” is doing a LOT of work for you here… 😉
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
It was my first reporting job. Yeah, at 44. And short of a few interviews, I was just rewriting shit.
I’ve been an editor for decades and have had to deal with plagiarism (thankfully, nothing too significant), so as a guardrail, it made sense. Editors approach writing with a far more critical eye than a recent J-school grad.