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The problem is, it doesn't improve text, it worsens it. And if your grasp of the language isn't good enough, you can edit a page in your own language, or ask nerds in the discussion section to help you, it will be better written, they will be happy, and you might learn something.
Asking a slop generator to generate some slop about what you wanted to write will make things worse.
This is a bit alarmist I think. It's about how you use it. If your prompt is "please write a funny story about a bunny" you'll get slop. If you write a full-ass Wikipedia article and ask it to simplify and punctuate long passages for increased legibility you can get valuable feedback.
It truly blows my mind that people need to use AI to write coherent sentences with proper punctuation at all. The shit that I receive in my inbox from people making far more money than me, that have multiple advanced degrees no less...it makes me weep for a future where no one is able to function without a computer holding their hand through the entire interaction.
We're going to get to the point where its all AIs talking to each other and humans are merely pressing the send button.
If you can write a full-ass Wikipedia article you don't need slopogen to smoother it into a paste of an average. You already wrote a full-ass Wikipedia article, good, done. Nerds from all over the world will fix your wording if it's appropriate, that's why it's collaborative, that's what made it good.
We all know it's not how people use slopogen. People use it instead of thinking, instead of working, instead of writing. And if not banned completely, that's what people will be doing with it, all the time, because people like to not spend any effort.
I think it's more nuanced than that. It all depends on what you're asking it to do (and a bit of luck that it complies as intended). Using a thesaurus can also either improve or worsen a text.
I'm not a native English speaker, but have lived in an English speaking country for many years now. I still make mistakes, but there is no point in me asking for help with English writing as my mistakes are subtle and I don't realise I made them. Getting an AI to detect clumsy use of English and grammar mistakes has worked quite well for me before publishing reports. While I don't always use the correct grammar while writing, I'm very capable of judging whether an LLM suggested improvement is actually better.
Of course, letting an LLM rewrite a whole text is much riskier in terms of the original meaning getting lost. But that's not the only way to use it.
There's definitely a lot of nuance in this topic. I think discarding the whole thing and saying "And if your grasp of the language isn’t good enough, you can edit a page in your own language" is a bit naïve. English is the lingua franca of the world, so if you have knowledge about something that should be in Wikipedia but isn't, adding or appending to a English page will reach the widest audience. Ideally you'd then do the same for your native language as well.
As long as there are humans at the beginning and end of the pipeline I at least hope that this won't negatively affect the quality.