I'd been using 4o and 3o to read research papers and ask about topics that are a little bit out of my depth for a while now. I get massive amount of value out of that. What used to take me a week of googling and squinting at wikipedia or digging for slightly less theoretical blog posts, I get to just upload a paper or transcript of a talk and just keep asking it questions until I feel like I got all the insights and ah-ha moments.
At the end, I ask it to give me a quiz on everything we talked about and any other insights I might have missed. Instead of typing out the answers, I just use Apple Dictation to transcribe my answers directly.
It's only recently that I thought to take the conversation I just had, and have it write a blog post of the insights and ah-ha moments I had, and have it write a blog post. It takes a fair bit of curation to get it to do that, however. I can't just say, "write me a blog post on all we talked about". I have to first get it to write an outline with the key insights. And then based on the outline, write each section. And then I'll use chatgpt's canvas to guide and fine-tune each section.
However, at no point do I have to specifically write the actual text. I mostly do curation.
I feel ok about doing this, and don't consider it AI slop, because I clearly mark at the top that I didn't write a word of it, and it's the result of a curated conversation with 4o. In addition, I think if most people do this as a result of their own Socratic methods with an AI, it'd build up enough training data for next generation of AI to do a better job of writing pedagogical explanations, posts, and quizzes to get people learning topics that are just out of reach, but there hadn't been too many people able to bridge the gap.
> I feel ok about doing this, and don't consider it AI slop, because I clearly mark at the top that I didn't write a word of it
This is key - if it's marked clearly as AI-generated or assisted, it's not slop. I think this is an important part of AI ethics that most people can agree with.
At the end, I ask it to give me a quiz on everything we talked about and any other insights I might have missed. Instead of typing out the answers, I just use Apple Dictation to transcribe my answers directly.
It's only recently that I thought to take the conversation I just had, and have it write a blog post of the insights and ah-ha moments I had, and have it write a blog post. It takes a fair bit of curation to get it to do that, however. I can't just say, "write me a blog post on all we talked about". I have to first get it to write an outline with the key insights. And then based on the outline, write each section. And then I'll use chatgpt's canvas to guide and fine-tune each section.
However, at no point do I have to specifically write the actual text. I mostly do curation.
I feel ok about doing this, and don't consider it AI slop, because I clearly mark at the top that I didn't write a word of it, and it's the result of a curated conversation with 4o. In addition, I think if most people do this as a result of their own Socratic methods with an AI, it'd build up enough training data for next generation of AI to do a better job of writing pedagogical explanations, posts, and quizzes to get people learning topics that are just out of reach, but there hadn't been too many people able to bridge the gap.
The two I had it write are: Effects as Protocols and Contexts as Agents: https://interjectedfuture.com/effects-as-protocols-and-conte...
How free monads and functors represent syntax for algebraic effects: https://interjectedfuture.com/how-the-free-monad-and-functor...