Usage of LLMs to create posts / replies

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Across the web, including in this forum, I have observed people increasingly utilise LLMs to write posts and responses. I feel that to some degree this is to the detriment of the user experience for people reading these posts. I think there are some justifiable reasons to use these tools to communicate here, e.g. for those without fluency in English, but I wonder if something could or should be done here.

Perhaps rules (in the LLM workflow sense) to shape the output in a more readable way for general consumption would be helpful, and rules (in the forum sense) could establish this as a norm.

Interested in what others think. I don’t see it as a big problem today, but I believe it could be one in the short and medium term.

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I get where you’re coming from, and I agree that fully AI-generated posts can sometimes feel a bit “off” or disconnected. But I think it’s also important to recognize that different people use these tools in different ways—and not all of them are trying to outsource their entire voice.

For example, I personally use AI the same way people use a rubber duck: as something to talk to in order to evolve an idea, structure my thoughts, or sanity-check whether what I’m writing makes sense. The back-and-forth helps me avoid rambling or missing something important.

There’s also the language aspect. English is simpler for native speakers, but for a lot of us, it’s not. English has a very strict sentence order compared to many other languages, and in many languages the word order is completely different—or even flexible in ways English doesn’t allow. When multilingual people write in English, their native sentence patterns often bleed through, which can make the writing harder for others to follow. Using AI to “clean up” the phrasing is just a way to make sure the message is readable and doesn’t distract from the content.

So I agree that shaping AI-generated writing to be more natural and less “AI-ish” is a good idea. But I also think it’s worth keeping in mind that for many people, the goal isn’t to replace their voice—it’s to make their voice clearer and more understandable for everyone else.

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