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jml78 | 7 months ago
Do you have kids? Outside of discipline, and even there, I want to have a positive relationship with my sons.
My oldest knows that I am not a writer, there are a ton areas that I can give legit good advice. I can actually have a fun conversation about his stories, but I have no qualifications to tell him what he might want to change. I can say what I like but my likes/dislikes are not what an editor does. I actually stay away from dislikes on his writing because who cares what I don’t like.
I would rather encourage him to write, write more, and get some level of feedback even if I don’t think my feedback is valuable.
LLMs have been trained on likely all published books, it IS more qualified than me.
If he continues to write and gets good enough should he seek a human editor sure.
But I never want me to be a reason he backs away from something because my feedback was wrong. It is easier for people to take critical feedback from a computer than their parents. Kids want to please and I don’t want him writing stuff because he think it will be up my alley.
whoisyc|7 months ago
You think you shouldn’t give advice because your feedback is not valuable and may even cause your son to give up writing, but you have so far given no reason why AI wouldn’t. From the entire ChatGPT “glazing” accident I can also argue that the AI can also give bad feedback. Heck most mainstream models are fine tuned to sounds like a secretary that never says no.
Sorry if this sounds rude, but it feels like the real reason you ask your son to get AI feedback is to avoid being personally responsible for mistakes. You are not using AI as a tool, you are using it as an scapegoat in case anything goes wrong.
skydhash|7 months ago
It has also be trained on worthless comments on the internet, so that’s not a great indicator.
stefanka|7 months ago
Do you want an LLM to be the reason? You can explain that your Feedback is opinionated or biased. And you know him better than any machine ever will