Re: Dealing with LLMs in IETF discussions draft
"John Levine" <[email protected]> 31 Jul 2026 13:10:20 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.general |
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| Organization | Taughannock Networks |
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It appears that Robert Sparks <[email protected]> said: >"Voice" in IETF email correspondence is a thing. We learn to read each >other's messages (like the very terse two above) in the "voice" of the >sender. It's part of why AI generated or restated content sticks out. >That idea is scattered through the draft, but not explicitly mentioned. Beyond that, I usually skip AI messages because they're vacuous and wordy. In our mailing lists, I rarely see a message from a human that is over a screen long. If you can't make your point concisely, you probably don't understand it. I haven't used LLMs much but when I do I invariably tell them to make the result shorter, usually more than once. That helps, but there's still the question of whether it actually has anything to say. R's, John