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Can we please not have an automated tool that produces bad English? One of the example "good" titles is:

How to use redis-om .matches function instead of equals to search for entries containing a string?

This is missing the before redis-om. You can't "use redis-om matches function"; you need to "use the redis-om .matches function". More importantly, it is using "how to" as a question!

"How to foo" is a statement; it is not a question. You cannot ask "how to foo?"; that isn't English. This is the problem with generative AI models: they don't know anything, and since this is a very common anti-pattern on the internet, the AI seems to think that "how to" is a good way of starting a question. It isn't. "How can I foo?" is a question, "how to foo" is not.

Now, if you at least don't add a question mark at the end, "how to foo" can be a valid title as demonstrated by the hundreds of "how-tos" out there. However, "how to foo?" is as nonsensical as "this is answer?".

So, if we are going to do something like this, can we at least try top get it right? If even the toy examples generated for a post like this are wrong, this really doesn't fill me with confidence that it will actually be an improvement. The idea is sound, and this is indeed an area where a good AI could really help, but let's just be sure that it actually works and not just throw AI around hoping it will stick.

Can we please not have an automated tool that produces bad English? One of the example "good" titles is:

How to use redis-om .matches function instead of equals to search for entries containing a string?

This is missing the before redis-om. You can't "use redis-om matches function", you need to "use the redis-om .matches function". More importantly, it is using "how to" as a question!

"How to foo" is a statement, it is not a question. You cannot ask "how to foo?", that isn't English. This is the problem with generative AI models: they don't know anything, and since this is a very common anti-pattern on the internet, the AI seems to think that "how to" is a good way of starting a question. It isn't. "How can I foo?" is a question, "how to foo" is not.

Now, if you at least don't add a question mark at the end, "how to foo" can be a valid title as demonstrated by the hundreds of "how-tos" out there. However, "how to foo?" is as nonsensical as "this is answer?".

So, if we are going to do something like this, can we at least try to get it right? If even the toy examples generated for a post like this are wrong, this really doesn't fill me with confidence that it will actually be an improvement. The idea is sound, and this is indeed an area where a good AI could really help, but let's just be sure that it actually works and not just throw AI around hoping it will stick.

Can we please not have an automated tool that produces bad English? One of the example "good" titles is:

How to use redis-om .matches function instead of equals to search for entries containing a string?

This is missing the before redis-om. You can't "use redis-om matches function"; you need to "use the redis-om .matches function". More importantly, it is using "how to" as a question!

"How to foo" is a statement; it is not a question. You cannot ask "how to foo?"; that isn't English. This is the problem with generative AI models: they don't know anything, and since this is a very common anti-pattern on the internet, the AI seems to think that "how to" is a good way of starting a question. It isn't. "How can I foo?" is a question, "how to foo" is not.

Now, if you at least don't add a question mark at the end, "how to foo" can be a valid title as demonstrated by the hundreds of "how-tos" out there. However, "how to foo?" is as nonsensical as "this is answer?".

So, if we are going to do something like this, can we at least try to get it right? If even the toy examples generated for a post like this are wrong, this really doesn't fill me with confidence that it will actually be an improvement. The idea is sound, and this is indeed an area where a good AI could really help, but let's just be sure that it actually works and not just throw AI around hoping it will stick.

Can we please not have an automated tool that produces bad English? One of the example "good" titles is:

How to use redis-om .matches function instead of equals to search for entries containing a string?

This is missing the before redis-om. You can't "use redis-om matches function"; you need to "use the redis-om .matches function". More importantly, it is using "how to" as a question!

"How to foo" is a statement; it is not a question. You cannot ask "how to foo?"; that isn't English. This is the problem with generative AI models: they don't know anything, and since this is a very common anti-pattern on the internet, the AI seems to think that "how to" is a good way of starting a question. It isn't. "How can I foo?" is a question, "how to foo" is not.

Now, if you at least don't add a question mark at the end, "how to foo" can be a valid title as demonstrated by the hundreds of "how-tos" out there. However, "how to foo?" is as nonsensical as "this is answer?".

So, if we are going to do something like this, can we at least try top get it right? If even the toy examples generated for a post like this are wrong, this really doesn't fill me with confidence that it will actually be an improvement. The idea is sound, and this is indeed an area where a good AI could really help, but let's just be sure that it actually works and not just throw AI around hoping it will stick.

Can we please not have an automated tool that produces bad English? One of the example "good" titles is:

How to use redis-om .matches function instead of equals to search for entries containing a string?

This is missing the before redis-om. You can't "use redis-om matches function"; you need to "use the redis-om .matches function". More importantly, it is using "how to" as a question!

"How to foo" is a statement; it is not a question. You cannot ask "how to foo?"; that isn't English. This is the problem with generative AI models: they don't know anything, and since this is a very common anti-pattern on the internet, the AI seems to think that "how to" is a good way of starting a question. It isn't. "How can I foo?" is a question, "how to foo" is not.

Now, if you at least don't add a question mark at the end, "how to foo" can be a valid title as demonstrated by the hundreds of "how-tos" out there. However, "how to foo?" is as nonsensical as "this is answer?".

So, if we are going to do something like this, can we at least try top get it right? If even the toy examples generated for a post like this are wrong, this really doesn't fill me with confidence that it will actually be an improvement. The idea is sound, and this is indeed an area where a good AI could really help, but let's just be sure that it actually works and not just throw AI around hoping it will stick.

Can we please not have an automated tool that produces bad English? One of the example "good" titles is:

How to use redis-om .matches function instead of equals to search for entries containing a string?

This is missing the before redis-om. You can't "use redis-om matches function"; you need to "use the redis-om .matches function". More importantly, it is using "how to" as a question!

"How to foo" is a statement; it is not a question. You cannot ask "how to foo?"; that isn't English. This is the problem with generative AI models: they don't know anything, and since this is a very common anti-pattern on the internet, the AI seems to think that "how to" is a good way of starting a question. It isn't. "How can I foo?" is a question, "how to foo" is not.

Now, if you at least don't add a question mark at the end, "how to foo" can be a valid title as demonstrated by the hundreds of "how-tos" out there. However, "how to foo?" is as nonsensical as "this is answer?".

So, if we are going to do something like this, can we at least try to get it right? If even the toy examples generated for a post like this are wrong, this really doesn't fill me with confidence that it will actually be an improvement. The idea is sound, and this is indeed an area where a good AI could really help, but let's just be sure that it actually works and not just throw AI around hoping it will stick.