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#138: Do you pass the Turing test?
I saw AI playing the role of timid scribe everywhere in my own writing. Where I might write "altar-call energy," AI defaults to "enthusiasm." Where I talk about "collecting screenshots like a doomsday prepper," it recommends "documenting examples."
Katie Parrott • How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI
"Everyone sounds polished, templated, safe but at the expense of tone, texture and authenticity. It's not that we're copying AI; we are letting AI rewrite us into the same beige, efficient mold, and that's the subtle erosion of individuality that should worry us most."
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When I first saw this, I thought “Did anyone read this?” That’s always the question when encountering something that you think is god awful. But in the AI era, I found myself asking a follow-up question: “Did anyone write this?”