heatherlarson on Nostr: Because in journalism we are taught to dumb things down to an 8th grade level and the ...
Because in journalism we are taught to dumb things down to an 8th grade level and the LLMs have picked that up.
Better = more illiterate.
And also, you have to prompt specifically. “Good” and “better” aren’t great writing feedback even to humans.
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