Personally, I've used LLM to help me better structure my blog post after I write it. Meaning I've already written it, then it enhances it. Most of the time, I'm happy with the results at the time of editing. But when I come back a week or two to re-read it, it looks just like the example the author shared.
The goal is to make something legible, but the reality is we are producing slop. I'm back to writing before my brain becomes lazy.
[Edit: I agree] I've also grown to dislike even this use case. I did this back in 2023 but as AI text is spreading, the style - yes, even with prompt adjustments it leaks through - is recognized by more and more people and it's a very very bad look. If I see AI-like text from someone, I take it as an insult. It means they don't feel that it's worth their time to brush up the text themselves. And sure, it may well be that they don't value our interaction enough to spend the time on it. But that fact is indeed by itself insulting. So I only send AI touched up text to orgs that are so faceless or bureaucratic that I don't mind "offending" them.
I've grown to respect typos and slightly misconstructed sentences. It's an interesting dynamic that now what appeared lazy to 2021 eyes actually indicates effort and what appeared polished and effortful in 2021 now indicates laziness.
An example is how the admins of my local compute cluster communicate about downtimes and upgrades etc and they are clearly using AI and it's so damn annoying, it feels like biting into cotton candy fluff. Just send the bullet points! I don't need emojis, I don't need the fake politeness. It's no longer polite to be polite. It doesn't signal any effort.
The goal is to make something legible, but the reality is we are producing slop. I'm back to writing before my brain becomes lazy.