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Board with your AI outputs? Here’s some creative prompts to try:

Imagine you've got an outline of a proposal or pitch you want to send to someone. It's just bullet points, so you get AI to turn those bullets into a few pages of text laid out to look like a normal document. The person receiving it can't be bothered to read it, so they get their AI to convert it into a few salinet bullet points.

And there you have... See more

I've worked a bit on training AI and you have a wrong idea there. AI will not perform an analysis of what is the most impactful event of a given day. It will generate the event (sometimes fake :) based on probability taken from training data. I know it seems like the same thing but it's not. LLM does not have any analytical ability, if enough... See more

I’m an archivist. AI doesn’t scare me that much because I see every day how much information and evidence of human life is not online and never will be. My small institution has more than a million pages of manuscript material that will never be digitized; most archives have a tiny percentage of their holdings online, if any. To do real research in... See more

That people now associate em dashes with AI makes me furious, as I love me an em dash!

AI is missing the je ne sais quoi that only comes from a sleep-deprived manic genius pulling an all-nighter at 4am

Maybe A.I. can make a song that’s indistinguishable from what I can do. Maybe even a better song. But, to me, that doesn’t matter—that’s not what art is. Art has to do with our limitations, our frailties, and our faults as human beings. It’s the distance we can travel away from our own frailties. That’s what is so awesome about art: that we deeply... See more