Post #413779
2026-02-26 00:30 UTC
@Drbruced@aus.social That's exactly my experience with Microsoft's "copilot" when writing documentation. You start a sentence, and it "helpfully" propose a completion, which is its best guess of what I would like to write. Except it would also be the readers' best guess, and it would not bring them any new information. And thus the copilot guess would only be right if I was lazy and predictable and did not care for the reader.
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@Drbruced@aus.social 2026-02-26 02:30
@huitema I despair when I see competent colleagues putting their trust in ChatGPT et al. for their technical writing. I've already had one experience of a colleague attributing a hallucinated quote to me, but this article on ablation really gets to the more pernicious downsides of outsourcing our work to a statistical averaging machine.