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Losing My Voice to the Machine: Wrestling with AI in Modern Writing
Skimming through articles, I find one promising that his “Prompt Pack” will make me wealthy and more productive. All that’s required is to paste the prompt in, make slight changes, and then quality articles will come flying out faster than my bank account can fill up. Hmmm, very enticing.
It sounds good. So I start to think, “It’s to good to be true. You’re wiser than this. More important, is that what you want to hang your hat on?”. Of course not. It’s bad enough explaining that I write; imagine telling people I’m to lazy to do that and that I just copy and paste prompts?
AI has created a writer’s block of sorts for me. Have you written since about two years ago and thought, “AI could make this better?”. The article gets fed to AI, and it makes it sound like a professor or robot wrote the piece. It adds five angles to the subject that you had not considered. You spend time tweaking the grammar. By the end, the article is something you don’t recognize.
I don’t like the AI experience, nor do like the idea of not being able to write at a competitive speed. Maybe writing is over for me now at a commercial level if it requires AI?
The gurus tell us to let AI augment our work. I find this helpful for some articles, but it’s troublesome as it steers you. A…