I’ve found that LLMs spit things out that read like bad high school essays. I’m not sure they’re succeeding at sounding allistic at all. Just weirdly repetative in the way a structured high school essay is.
I don’t have autism, but I still use ai to write out boring corpo stuff sometimes. Like out of office replies and sometimes to add some structure to an argument I’ve typed out hurriedly etc
Thanks for contributing to our community even though you’re not autistic ❤️
I don’t.
I’ve spent 2 months transcribing an entire poorly written text book into a Google doc. I’m now taking that transcription and having chat gpt rewrite it all for readability. All so I can maybe pass certification exam.
The problem is less with us and more with academia having developed an highly oppressive way of writing things. But from my perspective it’s just sloppy unreadable garbage.
AI has been great I can just give It the promt “make this concise and readable using only common language” and it will take entire chapters down to simple point form lists for me.
I also use goblin tools for writing.
I do not know goblin tools… but soon I will
Just in case there are malicious clones of it out there, the official site is goblin.tools 👍
I went, I REALLY liked it.
I haven’t had a reason to use it properly yet, just testing, but it looks great. It’s not perfect though. I asked it for a way to check what programs I have installed on Windows because I want to switch to Linux, and its answer was that I should make a list of the installed programs >.<
Tips for switching to Linux cause why not:
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Don’t… until you’ve switched to cross-platform software that you know fullfils your needs.
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Use a live session for a few days, weeks, months, before you actually install it.
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Don’t expect it to act like Windows, it isn’t
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@Melatonin just leaving this here…
I mean… what is autistic writing though? Can someone show me some examples?
@Emerald @Melatonin honestly it’s just that we have a very different social style in general.
Allistic social patterns are focused heavily on social hierarchy and group dynamics, which we couldn’t care less about (see identity theory of autism, “group/organization/association based identity vs values based identity”.
As far as allistics are concerned we tend to be “overly blunt”, “too matter of fact”, “condescending”, etc etc… mostly because we don’t include all the subtle nods to social standings and hierarchy in our communication.
Nah, I’m using it for work, to write proposals and documentation - that’s all. And I always include a “written with AI” disclaimer.
I do lists of stuff I want to say, make ai do it, then change it to sound more like me
As someone who doesn’t have adhd/autism, I see this as one of those legitimate uses of AI. Because lots of people struggle to make mails/texts to be readable.
Other is summaries the context of large texts/data sheets.
Claude has the ability to accept uploads of PDFs and then answer questions about them. I just recently uploaded a PDF of a complex state tax law that had deleted portions and addendums and all kinds of stuff over 36 pages of legalese, and after a few test questions to see if Claude was able to do what I wanted, I started asking questions and getting answers (with references) for important things I needed to know about what my rights were, and what I could and couldn’t do.
I never could have figured that out just reading through those pages.
@Melatonin @plactagonic just be sure to double check all references for hallucinations
That’s a great reminder for everyone!
I never trust AI. Or rather, trust but verify. In the case of a PDF I ask for section, page number, or quote. Always get the reference.
@Melatonin Yeah, I usually run into people who either assume everything is a hallucination or don’t understand that hallucinations happen and are unavoidable. Even less people even understand why or how they happen (ie. if you ask a question about anything not in the provided info, it’ll most likely hallucinate as if the answer was there)
I’m actually still coping with the fact that I can use AI for work. I hate it. It feels like cheating and I learn little from using it vs. figuring the thing out myself, but this is a smart use.
@finkrat @Melatonin if you read it’s output and learn nothing then you’ve only saved yourself time, if you don’t understand and learn nothing, then you shouldn’t use it because you can’t vouch for it
