bizarre result reported by MIT researchers who found that AI scores on math tests soared when they were told to “take a deep breath” before attempting them.

ask your AI to produce meaningful passages of content: > Write the full text for [insert subsection number from the outline]

AIs putting forth factual inaccuracies has to do with their function of plotting a middle course between multidimensional universes of data points. They’ve consumed reams of quality research on astrophysics—but also a fair bit about the earth being flat and the moon being made of green cheese. Each is assigned a probability.

for a while, your human voice will increasingly be in vogue.

Focus on the first paragraph. If you are going to change one sentence, change this. Here’s a trick: read the sentence, open another document, and rewrite the sentence, or the sense of the sentence, from memory.

also try to improve AI-generated copy by encouraging good stylistic habits: > Shorten this text by 15 percent but retain its factual content by removing repetition, empty phrases, and adjectives

Maya Angelou, who said: “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

still hit-or-miss. You can try this prompt: > Shorten this text by 15 percent

Neutralize the problem by using the following prompt: > I don’t need an intro or outro