Yes to all of this! I was listening to a podcast earlier this week where the guest was talking about how we are currently in a trust deficit due to AI. Meaning that people are so hung up on whether or not AI was used to create a piece of content and automatically dismissing people as someone who can’t be trusted while missing the entire point of the content to begin with. Truthfully, I don’t believe that the majority of people have their discernment muscle built strongly enough to accurately be able to determine that anyway, so it’s a fallible line to draw in the sand to begin with.
Awesome entry. Ann Handley would be proud of your support of the em dash (I defend it and the Oxford comma). I use AI, yet sometimes don't want to fire it up. However, we're not given the luxury of slower, thoughtful writing. However, I still take notes by hand and write out my grocery lists. Because sometimes you need tangible things that help you organize your thoughts as they spill out across the paper.
Exactly. I've used em-dashes since way before ChatGPT and I'm not going to edit my writing style just because AI does it too. On the other hand the "it's not A, it's B" construct really grinds my gears. To me, it's a prime signal of AI slop. According to my Bayesian Brain, I'd predict -- and bet money on it -- that if you encounter such a phrase online, chances are an AI generated it.
Yes to all of this! I was listening to a podcast earlier this week where the guest was talking about how we are currently in a trust deficit due to AI. Meaning that people are so hung up on whether or not AI was used to create a piece of content and automatically dismissing people as someone who can’t be trusted while missing the entire point of the content to begin with. Truthfully, I don’t believe that the majority of people have their discernment muscle built strongly enough to accurately be able to determine that anyway, so it’s a fallible line to draw in the sand to begin with.
Awesome entry. Ann Handley would be proud of your support of the em dash (I defend it and the Oxford comma). I use AI, yet sometimes don't want to fire it up. However, we're not given the luxury of slower, thoughtful writing. However, I still take notes by hand and write out my grocery lists. Because sometimes you need tangible things that help you organize your thoughts as they spill out across the paper.
I doubt that Chad takes his clothes to the cleaners.
Good points about pros and cons of AI. We writers know how to do our craft!
Exactly. I've used em-dashes since way before ChatGPT and I'm not going to edit my writing style just because AI does it too. On the other hand the "it's not A, it's B" construct really grinds my gears. To me, it's a prime signal of AI slop. According to my Bayesian Brain, I'd predict -- and bet money on it -- that if you encounter such a phrase online, chances are an AI generated it.
Except that I used that very device in this post…
Yes, you did! But what's a throwaway "it's not A, it's B" among friends, eh?