Category: Writing
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AI: The Blade Itself Incites to Deeds of Hackery
Read more: AI: The Blade Itself Incites to Deeds of HackeryWe’re peppered with marketing slop aimed at convincing us that AI is the way forward, that it will inevitably surpass human capabilities, and soon. For the purposes of writing and editing, there is no evidence to support that claim. I expect that there never will be, and that the reasons for that limitation are inherent to AI. I don’t truck with generative AI or LLMs. Not as an editor of manuscripts, not as a writer of blog posts, not as a father of grade-school kids. I’ve encouraged my sons to replace “AI” with “heroin” whenever they encounter it at school.…
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Either/Or
Read more: Either/OrI recently misspelled my mother’s name in my father’s obituary. Had my excuses–it was a rush job and I’d started it on my phone, where my clumsy thumbs got in the way–but I still missed my typo and ended up with a draft that would have told the world that I’d been born to a foodstuff. My brother, who’d asked me to write the thing, caught the error and corrected it before anyone else saw it. Which was another in a lifelong series of reminders that we can write, or we can edit, but we can’t do both at the…