> First, to those who can recognize an LLM’s reveals (an expanding demographic!), it’s just embarrassing — it’s as if the writer is walking around with their intellectual fly open. But there are deeper problems: LLM-generated writing undermines the authenticity of not just one’s writing but of the thinking behind it as well. If the prose is automatically generated, might the ideas be too? The reader can’t be sure — and increasingly, the hallmarks of LLM generation cause readers to turn off (or worse).
> Specifically, we must be careful to not use LLMs in such a way as to undermine the trust that we have in one another
> our writing is an important vessel for building trust — and that trust can be quickly eroded if we are not speaking with our own voice