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“I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era” by N. Cailie


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Yesterday, I wrote my first technical draft on what I was working on with the goal to share it publicly on here (well using an account dedicated to technical post), and did not realize how wanting to sound perfect actually steal the ''my voice" in the paper. Although 80 % of the content was my own writing, the fact that it was run in a LLM enginee for grammar and vocabulary cross-check, made it failed the "probable written by AI " metric; and it was rejected.
I am not complaining, well, it was kinda my fault after all cause the instructions did specify the no-use of LLM, when sending first post. And the rejection made me think: why did I even need the AI to validate what I worked on?

The scary part, is I love writing, I have been writing blogs and all sort of things since I can't even remember. Have some think pieces on popular sites, and other personal blog that I used to share. And you know, before 2023, my writing was so good that I rarely had to have a second read or correction to make sure the flow stays consistent [...]


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First published:

March 29th, 2026

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/i-am-definitely-missing-the-pre-ai-writing-era

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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