Category: Embracing AI
Rodney was halfway through his Manhattan the other evening when I made the mistake of telling him about yet another conversation I’d had with ChatGPT at the library that morning. I’d gone there convinced I was writing a chapter about high blood pressure. An hour later, I realized I wasn’t. More accurately, Chat had spent…
The dog in the photo accompanying this post appears to have appointed itself Chief Gatekeeper. Every industry has them. Publishing has agents. Academia has tenure committees. Bookstores have buyers. Social media has influencers. And now the writing world has people conducting purity tests on AI. I’ve spent much of my career bumping into various forms…
There’s not a parent alive who doesn’t remember the day their child becomes a parent. I don’t mean the day you overhear your son or daughter lecturing their own child. I mean the day they start lecturing you about your behaviour. I’ve had more than a few of those moments in the past year, usually over AI, and usually…
The other day, I received an automated e-mail response from an editor at a major Canadian newspaper. Along with the paper’s writing guidelines, it came with this warning: “Please confirm that no AI was used at any stage in the creation of the article.” No AI. At any stage. In the creation. Think about that for a…
It’s next to impossible these days to avoid the panic being generated, no pun intended, by AI writing tools. One day, a book is reportedly sent to the chipper after software decides it was generated by AI. The next, a writer is being scolded for publishing too much and too quickly, thanks to the help…
If hair extensions can give you the hairstyle you covet, what might brain extensions do for you? Help you remember a phone number or help you write an entire book? Would you be offloading information, like your grocery list, or outsourcing the creation of the list in the first place? Welcome to the latest round of arguments over how…