I'm late to the party, but there is a dilemma that seems to be facing poor English speakers and writers that I think is a bit imagined, and using LLMs to cover your weakness with the language hurts the public perception of you. There was an article posted last year about East African contractors who were used to do the RLHF post-training for early frontier models, saying LLM speak was really just the way Africans speak English. I don't think that's entirely correct, because frankly, after several decades of working with international teams, I think it's the way a lot of non-Anglophone English speakers speak.

It comes across as both childish and overly formal at the same time. Affected, too excited. It's the guy that says "Hi name!" on Slack and then waits for you to respond, instead of just saying what they actually wanted to say. You're responding to everyone here with some variant of "thank you, I appreciate it." That just isn't the way people speak to each other in normal conversation. It's the way a consultant speaks to you when you're being told you're being laid off and your own manager is too cowardly to deliver the news personally. Sandwich the real point between effusion and praise, when all we actually want is the real point. It feels patronizing, like we're being spoken down to. It's the way politicians and CEOs speak, every word prepared by committee, nothing genuine.

It's all the worse knowing this isn't even you and we're being patronized and spoken down to by a marketing bot you're delegating communication to.