If you want to understand the dangers of having an LLM critique your writing, ask it to review a passage you love from a...

If you want to understand the dangers of having an LLM critique your writing, ask it to review a passage you love from a national book award winning novel. You'll see that it does this sort of nefarious and ill-advised flattening of style according to rules that sound like they make sense, but that actually rob the passage of life. LLMs will drive writers into an unholy confusion that robs writing of its soul. Thankfully, I resolved to be LLM free in my writing since January 2026 and it is wonderful. I now only use LLMs to do the same things I would use a search engine for: look up definitions of words and their usage and that's it. At no point do I insert a passage I've written into an LLM for any reason. #writing #editing #LLMs #AI