- This is actually bonkers. You're writing a non-fiction book but you aren't sure whether what you've written is consistent with your interviews, or whether your claims are logically consistent, so you ask an LLM to check for you!? And you are the CEO of The Atlantic?! www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...May 12, 2025 20:22
- I've written non-fiction books and more essays than I can count, and while I *have* thought, "I wonder if what I'm writing here makes any fucking sense at all," my next step has always been to *reread what I've written and think about what it means.*
- Why would you ask a research assistant who you *know* "happens to BS a lot" to check your shit?!
- I kinda like this use case? I have ADHD, and regularly struggle with things he’s talking about. I don’t write linearly so there are sometimes artifacts of that, or, I might edit a bunch of complex sentences into a vestigial sense that *I* still understand but it’s closer to gibberish
- The problem is that unlike a skilled human editor you cannot be sure it will actually work
