Martin Fowler warns authors against LLM-drafted prose
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Fowler describes an "uncanny valley of prose" — a human reaction to LLM-written text that detection tools arrive too late to address. He urges authors not to let an LLM write a first draft, since LLM-Voice is very hard to expel even after human editing.
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