"Can't AI write for me?" |
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The answer to that question is ... Maybe.
John Adams couldn't have imagined the confounding new reality of AI from his pre-Revolutionary vantage point, Yet, a few lines he wrote during those years seem to reach forward and place AI in a useful context:
John Adams couldn't have imagined the confounding new reality of AI from his pre-Revolutionary vantage point, Yet, a few lines he wrote during those years seem to reach forward and place AI in a useful context:
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge.
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write."
Adams was concerned about how the Stamp Act, a British tax imposed on certain colonial documents, was "battering down the Rights and Liberties of America" and urged people to think, write and talk about it. Today, for all the good it promises, AI also appears to be undermining personal self-expression. It responds to our prompts by gathering "relevant" information from across the internet, places the results in front of us and then invites us to put our name on it! Whether appropriate or not.
That may be OK for some but not for me--and perhaps not for you and others like you who prefer having your stories, memoirs, essays & etc. written in a voice that sounds like you instead of everybody else.
There is no substitute for thoughtful, personalized writing that captures the heart and voice of individual experience. Because one size does not always fit all.
- Brian Faulkner
"You amaze me with how you make every word count."
- letter writing client -
(She ran "our" letter through AI, which pronounced it "perfect." )
"You amaze me with how you make every word count."
- letter writing client -
(She ran "our" letter through AI, which pronounced it "perfect." )
