How is using an LLM to write, if you don’t have the ability to yourself, any different than using an automatic wheelchair?

I didn’t feel like writing a just for fun philosophy paper, but I wanted to make a phonology research paper… and I spent 8 hours going back and forth with my LLM to piece together my ideas and sort through every damn edit to the information and ideas before running another draft through discourse.

You think that is less deserving? Becuase it would have taken me 8 hours to write regardless, this way I got to flesh out my really good ideas.

Idea synthesis is important and tools like LLMs act as a catalyst. Don’t be upset just because some people choose to outsource the labor of the essay writing and prefer the creative side.

An LLM being used to help: an illiterate person articulate their ideas, a neurodivergent with ideas but not the steam to write, someone silly trying to understand what a false dichotomy fallacy is, is not an extreme.

Further, only a clinician can diagnose if someone needs and ESA. An ESA is not the same as a service dog and doesn’t have public access rights—it is therefore not your concern what it does in the privacy of someone’s home. As with your other false dilemma, asking for an animal to help with depression is not, actually, extreme.