Two models for collaborating with LLMs for writing: AI-as-writer and AI-as-editor.
- Two models for collaborating with LLMs for writing: AI-as-writer and AI-as-editor.
- In each, the human implicitly plays the other role.
- If you have a ton of experience as an editor, you can still do AI-as-writer OK.
- But editing is a skill; it's hard to take the bones of something that someone else wrote and improve it.
- Similar to code review vs writing code.
- Code-review is a separate skill.
- Now with code-reviewing and editing an AI's work, editing is a bit easier than it was before, because you don't have to worry about hurting someone else's feelings.
- With real humans you have to consider "is this small improvement worth making this human frustrated?"
- There's a lower Coasian floor for nits worth flagging when working with an AI writer.