[tldoc] TeXLive plans in writing the documentation: will be human or chatgpt generated text?

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Thu Jun 8 01:39:32 CEST 2023


Hi Carlos,

thanks for your long message, but I think you got a few things up-side-down ;-)

On Wed, 07 Jun 2023, Carlos wrote:
> that TUG seems to be now in cahoots with chatgpt.

Whatever being in cahoots might mean, rest assured, we have not been bought
by any of the big LLM-using companies.

> As a result of this and since it seems clear to me that TUG is
> promoting the use of chatgpt to look up and generate in TeX code all
> sort of formulas, such as Euler's for example 

No, the TUG is not promoting. Discussing current developments and their
use is not a promotion nor endorsement.

> Apart from being just a shortcut to laziness which promotes entitlement
> to all, including students; my question, in retrospect is: will the
> documentation in the manual, with you as its main author, follow the
> same steps as its parent's decisions (TUG's decisions) and perhaps
> replace some/almost all/ text/writing in the manual through other
> methods such as the ones exploited at large by chatgpt now (your
> own included)?

Rest assured!

And for the rest of your modern technology panic driven "ramblings" 
(as you called them) - LLM based systems are a tool, like many other 
tools. They can be used in a good way and in a bad way. Life goes on.
As a great engineer once said: In the future, ChatGPT/etc will not
take over our job as engineers, it will not be GPT versus engineers,
it will be engineers using GPT versus engineers not using GPT. It is
up to you to choose the tools you like.

But please, spare us with any further technology ramblings.

Thanks in advance

Norbert

(my only message in this thread)

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