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One of the only good uses I’ve seen for LLMs is as a sort of advanced grammar checker. I have a friend who is a subject matter expert but English is not his first language. He uses ChatGPT to help him rewrite his technical statements into plainer, more fluent English. He does not rely on the model for any subject matter information and when it hallucinates he is able to detect and correct the mistakes. Otherwise he finds it extremely useful as a writing tool.
I recently took some college classes and they had us run our papers through gramarly to check for errors and to help our writing.
I hated it. It took the voice of your writing out almost completely and every sentence was weighted to be written like a standard textbook. Sure, all the same information was there, but when the ai said it was good... It sounded like it was just written by ai in the first place. Making it happy was worse than writing the paper in the first place since the grammar portion of the grading was simply 'run it through ai and mark down for any errors it picks up'.