Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Posted Apr 21, 2024 7:36 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Gentoo bans AI-created contributions by donald.buczek
Parent article: Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

> > Well, the LLM's output certainly feels "stilted", or off, somehow.

> I'm a bit disappointed by your restrained reply, I hope I didn't offend you, which was surly not indented. That was supposed to be a harmless joke.

Well, my reply was - while true - intended to be tongue-in-cheek. And of course, when you're worried about your own English, and the LLM gets it worse, of course that's funny :-)

And no, I'm not offended. Speaking four languages to varying ability (and a brit to boot!), I know how hard it can be to express yourself in another language. It's when native speakers can't be bothered to try and get it right that I get upset. After all, English is reputed to be one of the hardest languages to learn (and then you've got American, Strine, Pidgin, and all the others with their quirks on top :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Posted Apr 21, 2024 12:43 UTC (Sun) by donald.buczek (subscriber, #112892) [Link] (2 responses)

> > > Well, the LLM's output certainly feels "stilted", or off, somehow.
> > I'm a bit disappointed by your restrained reply, I hope I didn't offend you, which was surly not indented. That was supposed to be a harmless joke.
> Well, my reply was - while true - intended to be tongue-in-cheek. And of course, when you're worried about your own English, and the LLM gets it worse, of course that's funny :-)

"Indented". OMG, how comes you only see your mistakes after you send/post/print something? I should have had it reviewed by an LLM or spouse; the former would have pointed the error out. And thank you for you not picking on it.

Btw: We diverted a bit into whether LLMs can help when you need to communicate in a language which you are not perfect in. In my opinion, they can. But it's not only with foreign languages. I occasionally ask an AI to review my German texts, too, and most of the time the reviews are helpful and the suggestions are good. I often accept them.

And I've replied to a comment which mentioned AI-tooling for text (commit messages). I don't want to open a whole new discussion with some of the arguments being the same, but I do think that using code-trained AIs can be very helpful in the programming domain, too.

Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Posted Apr 21, 2024 15:35 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

> "Indented". OMG, how comes you only see your mistakes after you send/post/print something?

> surly not indented

There's an even bigger typo in there - I'm really sure you didn't mean that !!! :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

Posted Apr 21, 2024 19:49 UTC (Sun) by donald.buczek (subscriber, #112892) [Link]

My error rate of 66% surely makes me surly.