I so appreciate your writing and can now recognize content produced by a human versus AI. The way I can tell is that I simply cannot ENGAGE in AI content, tending to glaze over whatever is being communicated, as if the words have lost their soul and power.
Mass production erases the maker. AI erases the writer.
I honestly haven’t read enough AI produced content to be able to tell. Though I have had my suspicions. I’m not trying to be a hard liner or anything, but I’m suspicious of where this is headed.
Thank you for sharing your view on this Todd, it's interesting to see how we all find our own way forward with this. As you've probably seen, in just the last week, I have chosen almost the extreme opposite to you! I really want to jump in with both feet, to figure out what AI is, how I can work with it, what it means working with it, what it does to my writing, my thinking, my process... and I am also quite intrigued and interested in seeing how the readers will respond. In many ways my goal has always been to get my ideas and my thoughts and ponderings across, will AI help me say what I want to say in a way that makes sense to more people than if I used my own more convoluted style? Is something lost in the process, or am I just able to transmit the essence of what I want to say in a more efficient way? I don't know! I might come away from this experience and experiment realising this was the wrong move, or this might be the future. I'm open to both.
Thanks for reading and commenting. I did read your piece on your use of AI and found it fascinating. You are a fine writer and a great astrologer, and I enjoy reading your work. It does make sense to use AI as a writing assistant as you do, even if I’m too old fashioned and ornery to do so myself. I will follow your experiments with interest!
I read the part about "sits down at the keyboard and hunts-and-pecks" and my first thought was "I never knew there was an actual description for my typing style." Lol.
Only when I'm around grade school kids that type like 200 words a minute. Sad thing is I took a typing class in high school and got pretty good at it. Then I didnt type for like fifteen years
I so appreciate your writing and can now recognize content produced by a human versus AI. The way I can tell is that I simply cannot ENGAGE in AI content, tending to glaze over whatever is being communicated, as if the words have lost their soul and power.
Mass production erases the maker. AI erases the writer.
Thanks Julie!
I honestly haven’t read enough AI produced content to be able to tell. Though I have had my suspicions. I’m not trying to be a hard liner or anything, but I’m suspicious of where this is headed.
Thank you for sharing your view on this Todd, it's interesting to see how we all find our own way forward with this. As you've probably seen, in just the last week, I have chosen almost the extreme opposite to you! I really want to jump in with both feet, to figure out what AI is, how I can work with it, what it means working with it, what it does to my writing, my thinking, my process... and I am also quite intrigued and interested in seeing how the readers will respond. In many ways my goal has always been to get my ideas and my thoughts and ponderings across, will AI help me say what I want to say in a way that makes sense to more people than if I used my own more convoluted style? Is something lost in the process, or am I just able to transmit the essence of what I want to say in a more efficient way? I don't know! I might come away from this experience and experiment realising this was the wrong move, or this might be the future. I'm open to both.
Hi Lotta,
Thanks for reading and commenting. I did read your piece on your use of AI and found it fascinating. You are a fine writer and a great astrologer, and I enjoy reading your work. It does make sense to use AI as a writing assistant as you do, even if I’m too old fashioned and ornery to do so myself. I will follow your experiments with interest!
I read the part about "sits down at the keyboard and hunts-and-pecks" and my first thought was "I never knew there was an actual description for my typing style." Lol.
It’s awful isn’t it.
Only when I'm around grade school kids that type like 200 words a minute. Sad thing is I took a typing class in high school and got pretty good at it. Then I didnt type for like fifteen years