Herbie Bradley on Limits of AI for Writing

In a reply, Herbie Bradley, a final-year PhD student at Cambridge researching synthetic data for LLMs, stated that using AI to write directly does not feel hugely useful. He said the usual blocker to writing speed is having the ideas rather than generating the text. Bradley noted that AI performs well for consistency checking and review once a draft exists, yet he finds it surprisingly poor at producing counter-narratives or alternatives.