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I’m a prompt engineer and journalist with an AI beat. Publishing all the scraps I don’t get to cover at work.
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Microwaves may vary (opens the original)
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Over the last few months, I've compared AI writing to cooking with a microwave, because it gets the job done but you can always tell the meal isn't homemade. Tonight, while making dinner in another favorite appliance, the air fryer, I found myself thinking about the microwave again, this time in terms of the dangers of AI.Most people use AI to make their lives more productive, whether that means sifting through an overflowing inbox or building a spreadsheet. The microwave does the same for me in
My daughter is too young for ChatGPT — but there's a reason I let her use it (opens the original)
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My nine-year-old daughter loves math, the Dork Diaries series, and gymnastics, but when anyone asks about her goals for this school year, she always says the same thing: find a best friend.<img alt="A young girl listens to
The Entertainment of Power (opens the original)
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If you self-publish, add an AI tag to it — here’s why (opens the original)
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This is a very unpopular opinion, but if you use KDP, go ahead and add an AI tag, even if there is not one iota of AI in it. This will ensure your work is less likely to be used to train AI models. If you feel gross adding an AI tag, explain it in the prologue or “Note from author” space to let readers know that although no AI was used to write your novel, the tag is to keep big tech away. Read more about the “why” here.
It’s a match (opens the original)
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I’m willing to bet that in ten years nobody will care about watermarks or AI writing. It’s like when everyone felt weird 20 years ago to date someone they met online. Now nobody asks or even cares. This week I covered the news about Claude watermarking text and code from both a consumer and developer angle. And while I don’t know a single person who would ever cancel Claude, especially over something l
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