For the record, the Uncanny Valley is about something that looks like it should be a living person, but isn't.
In other words, the form is there but the content the form implies, the actual person, is absent.
Thinking that this is purely an aesthetic issue misses the point entirely: We are clearly mentally & emotionally hardwired to reject things that pretend to have intent but don't - we instinctively categorize them as dangerous, even hostile.
#AI #psychology #behavior
There's an interesting thing I've noticed about myself with the onslaught of hard-to-read AI prose seemingly everywhere. I am historically a rules lawyer (in my head, not out loud) about grammar and spelling, silently judging folks for ugly or clunky prose. AI writing has softened my position on this issue. LLMs write with excellent grammar, but they have no intention, so they can't ever really get to the point. They don't want anything, so there is no point to anything they say. They are generally bad writers because of it.
My fixation when reading now is on whether there is a clear point, something the author wants me to get, not whether the grammar is nice or the spelling is good.
I think this is telling me that I, and you, shouldn't use AI even to edit and definitely not to write. I suspect it makes your writing worse even while making it more grammatically defensible to an English teacher.