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you’re forgetting the option of using a traditional/non-LLM spellcheck program. Like the one in LibreOffice.
There are also some decent grammar suggestions in there usually. But speaking as both a native English speaker and someone who hates AI on principle, I would far prefer bad grammar in English than anything that’s been touched by an LLM.
@ariarhythmic @darth also, this option has the benefit that you’ll get better at writing on your own.
If I were you, I’d flip your production process. Start by writing a script by yourself, then read from it. It will make making captions or a transcript easier too, since you’re just going off of what your script says plus any minor variations you made while reading it.
There’s a reason that’s the usual workflow for long form content, it’s easier than trying to clean up a transcript.
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you’re forgetting the option of using a traditional/non-LLM spellcheck program. Like the one in LibreOffice.
There are also some decent grammar suggestions in there usually. But speaking as both a native English speaker and someone who hates AI on principle, I would far prefer bad grammar in English than anything that’s been touched by an LLM.
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@ariarhythmic @darth also, this option has the benefit that you’ll get better at writing on your own.
If I were you, I’d flip your production process. Start by writing a script by yourself, then read from it. It will make making captions or a transcript easier too, since you’re just going off of what your script says plus any minor variations you made while reading it.
There’s a reason that’s the usual workflow for long form content, it’s easier than trying to clean up a transcript.
@Byte @ariarhythmic the reason why I record videos first, and then use it as a source for the blog is because when I talk into the camera I can be myself in real time, so to speak. I don't know if you watched any of my videos - but almost all of them are recorded in "one take" unless it's a research material where a lot of facts need to be said accurately. That I prepare upfront.
The only thing I can reasonably do is keep recording videos ad-hoc, and then write blog posts "from memory".
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@darth @ariarhythmic adding my voice that I did want to read your post after seeing this quoot but now that I know that an LLM was involved I won't. I don't mind if your english isn't that good.
@jay @ariarhythmic unfortunately LLM wasn't involved in the source material. I don't mind you not reading it, this world is free. But I do prefer to tell the truth. LLM was involved in cleaning up the transcript of my video.
I thought that isn't an issue, but it seems that I was wrong.
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@Byte @ariarhythmic the reason why I record videos first, and then use it as a source for the blog is because when I talk into the camera I can be myself in real time, so to speak. I don't know if you watched any of my videos - but almost all of them are recorded in "one take" unless it's a research material where a lot of facts need to be said accurately. That I prepare upfront.
The only thing I can reasonably do is keep recording videos ad-hoc, and then write blog posts "from memory".
@ariarhythmic @darth fair, that sort of makes sense.
Well, in that case, speech recognition for a transcript is pretty decent, then you can clean it up by hand my reviewing it for mistakes manually.
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@ariarhythmic @darth fair, that sort of makes sense.
Well, in that case, speech recognition for a transcript is pretty decent, then you can clean it up by hand my reviewing it for mistakes manually.
@Byte @ariarhythmic there is another problem here. I don't believe that readers would want to read a naked transcript, no matter that it is cleaned up from grammar mistakes. I believe that written word must have its own distinction from video material.
And now that I typed this sentence - I now understand my fault by handing over my transcript to a robot. I will do better from now on. Not because you said so, but because I now see that I can do better than Claude.
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@jay @ariarhythmic unfortunately LLM wasn't involved in the source material. I don't mind you not reading it, this world is free. But I do prefer to tell the truth. LLM was involved in cleaning up the transcript of my video.
I thought that isn't an issue, but it seems that I was wrong.
@darth @ariarhythmic there are so many issues with them. Here's a start.
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@darth @ariarhythmic there are so many issues with them. Here's a start.
@jay @ariarhythmic I think we are doomed, considering that basically every OS is LLM-powered now. Maybe OpenBSD isn't, I am not sure.
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@darth Your work would benefit greatly from a clear declaration of whether or not AI assistance was used. With this writing style, I can't help but slopvestigate
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@darth @ariarhythmic adding my voice that I did want to read your post after seeing this quoot but now that I know that an LLM was involved I won't. I don't mind if your english isn't that good.
@jay @ariarhythmic declaration added.
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you’re forgetting the option of using a traditional/non-LLM spellcheck program. Like the one in LibreOffice.
There are also some decent grammar suggestions in there usually. But speaking as both a native English speaker and someone who hates AI on principle, I would far prefer bad grammar in English than anything that’s been touched by an LLM.
@Byte @ariarhythmic declaration added in the blog post.
but the entire conversation today (with multiple people) taught me that there is no winning here. Linux itself is now Ai-assisted.
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@ariarhythmic I used to mark it when I used LLM's and then suddenly the entire Internet became A LOT bigger slop than my blog will ever be so I thought to myself — why bother?
But yes, Claude is involved.
Now that we got that sorted out please tell me, as a blog reader, how much does it bother you knowing that I am not a native English speaker and that I have decided to swap LibreOffice dictionary for something like Claude? I need to understand this from your perspective so I can adjust.
@darth as a blog reader, and as someone who has his websites constantly attacked by crawlers (anthropic's chief among them), if I discover a blog post is AI infested, I never visit again.
I would much rather read imperfect english than slop. I'd rather read barely legible, but honest, AI-free articles, than slop.
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@darth as a blog reader, and as someone who has his websites constantly attacked by crawlers (anthropic's chief among them), if I discover a blog post is AI infested, I never visit again.
I would much rather read imperfect english than slop. I'd rather read barely legible, but honest, AI-free articles, than slop.
@algernon @ariarhythmic I don't like reading slop as well. It's just that I don't understand how is it slop if it's literally fed the words that I said out loud? Do I speak slop?
I just published a new video an hour ago and this time there is no accompanying blog post.
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@algernon @ariarhythmic I don't like reading slop as well. It's just that I don't understand how is it slop if it's literally fed the words that I said out loud? Do I speak slop?
I just published a new video an hour ago and this time there is no accompanying blog post.
@darth if an AI touched it, it is slop. It's not about how it reads, it's about how it was made.
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Valve is about to ship the Steam Machine. Everyone will tell you Valve saved Linux gaming. They didn't. Here's who actually built it.
@darth As a strong opponent of LLMs, I just want to leave an honest thank you for your work here. Great article about how Linux gaming became what it is today.
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@darth As a strong opponent of LLMs, I just want to leave an honest thank you for your work here. Great article about how Linux gaming became what it is today.
@vger thank you very much! Can I ask if V'ger is Star Trek inspired?
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@jay @ariarhythmic unfortunately LLM wasn't involved in the source material. I don't mind you not reading it, this world is free. But I do prefer to tell the truth. LLM was involved in cleaning up the transcript of my video.
I thought that isn't an issue, but it seems that I was wrong.
@darth
Jumping in here to add one small detail that seems important to me: The majority of people speaking and writing English today are not native speakers.Also, there is not one type of English language that is the one correct best one. You can find millions of native speakers around the world disagreeing heavily on spelling, grammar and vocabulary. Plus millions more using English as a second, third, fourth language in professional multi-lingual contexts that have created even more divergent variants of the language.
Therefore there is no need to adjust our words and sentences to some imaginary average ideal. We can understand each other just fine.
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@ariarhythmic I used to mark it when I used LLM's and then suddenly the entire Internet became A LOT bigger slop than my blog will ever be so I thought to myself — why bother?
But yes, Claude is involved.
Now that we got that sorted out please tell me, as a blog reader, how much does it bother you knowing that I am not a native English speaker and that I have decided to swap LibreOffice dictionary for something like Claude? I need to understand this from your perspective so I can adjust.
@darth Your writing reeks of Claude, then. It's horribly unethical to use such a product, and I'd rather skip reading blog posts edited with it entirely.
You can - and should - look up word definitions without any corporate AI help.
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