Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

你的“思想拉链”没拉上 (2025)

Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. 注：本文最初于 2025 年 11 月 11 日发布在 LinkedIn 上。我必须做一个痛苦的坦白：不知何故，LinkedIn 已经成为我重要的社交网络。

This isn’t necessarily due to LinkedIn’s sparkling competence, of course. To the contrary, LinkedIn is the Gerald Ford of social networks: the normal one that was left standing as the Richard Nixons and the Spiro Agnews of social media imploded around them. 当然，这并不一定是因为 LinkedIn 本身有多么出众的能力。恰恰相反，LinkedIn 是社交网络界的杰拉尔德·福特（Gerald Ford）：当社交媒体界的“理查德·尼克松”和“斯皮罗·阿格纽”们纷纷崩塌时，它是唯一留存下来的那个“正常人”。

As with Gerald Ford, with LinkedIn we know that we’re getting something a bit clumsy and boring, but (as with post-Watergate America!), we’re also getting something that isn’t totally crooked — and that’s actually a bit of a relief. 就像对待杰拉尔德·福特一样，我们知道 LinkedIn 有点笨拙且无聊，但（就像“水门事件”后的美国一样！）我们也知道它至少不是完全腐败的——这其实让人感到一丝宽慰。

But because I am finding I am spending more time here, we need to have some real talk: too many of you are using LLMs to generate content. 但因为我发现自己在这里花费的时间越来越多，我们需要进行一次坦诚的对话：你们中有太多人在使用大语言模型（LLM）来生成内容了。

Now, this isn’t entirely your fault: as if LLMs weren’t tempting enough, LinkedIn itself is cheerfully (insistently!) offering to help you “rewrite it with AI.” It seems so excited to help you out, why not let it chip in and ease your own burden? 当然，这并不完全是你们的错：大语言模型本身已经足够诱人了，LinkedIn 自己还在兴高采烈地（甚至坚持地！）提议帮你“用 AI 重写”。它看起来那么热衷于提供帮助，为什么不让它插一手来减轻你的负担呢？

Because holy hell, the writing sucks. It’s not that it’s mediocre (though certainly that!), it’s that it is so stylistically grating, riddled with emojis and single-sentence paragraphs and “it’s not just… but also” constructions and (yes!) em-dashes that some of us use naturally — but most don’t (or shouldn’t). 因为见鬼，这些文字写得太烂了。这不仅仅是平庸的问题（虽然确实很平庸！），而是它的文风极其刺眼，充斥着表情符号、单句段落、“不仅仅是……而且是……”的句式，还有（没错！）破折号——有些作者能自然地使用这些，但大多数人不能（或者说不该用）。

When you use an LLM to author a post, you may think you are generating plausible writing, but you aren’t: to anyone who has seen even a modicum of LLM-generated content (a rapidly expanding demographic!), the LLM tells are impossible to ignore. 当你使用大语言模型来撰写帖子时，你可能以为自己生成了像样的文字，但事实并非如此：对于任何看过哪怕一点点 AI 生成内容的人（这个群体正在迅速扩大！）来说，大语言模型的“破绽”是无法忽视的。

Bluntly, your intellectual fly is open: lots of people notice — but no one is pointing it out. 直白地说，你的“思想拉链”没拉上：很多人都注意到了，但没人会指出来。

And the problem isn’t merely embarrassment: when you — person whose perspective I want to hear! — are obviously using an LLM to write posts for you, I don’t know what’s real and what is in fact generated fanfic. 问题不仅仅是尴尬：当你——那个我真正想听取观点的人——明显在使用大语言模型代笔时，我无法分辨什么是真实的，什么是虚构的“同人小说”。

You definitely don’t sound like you, so… is the actual content real? I mean, maybe? But also maybe not. Regardless, I stop reading — and so do lots of others. 你听起来一点也不像你自己，所以……内容本身是真的吗？我是说，也许吧？但也可能不是。无论如何，我都会停止阅读——其他人也是如此。

To be clear, I think LLMs are incredibly useful: they are helpful for brainstorming, invaluable for comprehending text, and they make for astonishingly good editors. (And, unlike most good editors, you can freely ignore their well-meaning suggestions without fear of igniting a civil war over the Oxford comma or whatever.) 需要明确的是，我认为大语言模型非常有用：它们有助于头脑风暴，在理解文本方面价值连城，而且它们是令人惊叹的好编辑。（而且，与大多数优秀的编辑不同，你可以随意忽略它们好心的建议，而不必担心因为牛津逗号之类的问题引发一场“内战”。）

But LLMs are also lousy writers and (most importantly!) they are not you. At best, they will wrap your otherwise real content in constructs that cause people to skim or otherwise stop reading; at worst, they will cause people who see it for what it is to question your authenticity entirely. 但大语言模型也是糟糕的写手，而且（最重要的是！）它们不是你。往好了说，它们会用各种结构包装你原本真实的内容，导致人们扫视一眼就停止阅读；往坏了说，它们会让看穿真相的人彻底质疑你的真实性。

So please, if not for the sanity of all of us than just to give your own message the credit it deserves: have some confidence in your own voice — and write your own content. 所以拜托，就算不是为了我们所有人的心理健康，也请为了让你的观点获得应有的尊重：对你自己的声音多一点自信——亲自撰写你的内容吧。