Give Us Your Taste
The article discusses the importance of human interaction in writing compared to AI-generated content. It emphasizes that good writing reflects deliberate choices made by individuals, which AI lacks. The author expresses a desire for authentic human communication rather than relying on AI responses.
- ▪AI can produce text that resembles human writing but lacks true intent.
- ▪The author feels frustrated by the prevalence of AI in communication.
- ▪Human writing is valuable because of the intent and choices behind it.
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Give Us Your Taste 1 minute read AI is incredible. But even more incredible is thoughtful human interaction. When a human writes, there’s an entire world behind every choice of word. Every inclusion or exclusion is a choice. Good writing transfers an idea from one head to another. It’s magic. Increasingly we’re seeing heartless AI slop throughout our digital space. Slack messages, emails, Jira tickets, code, specs, plans. Written by AI that mushed together something that “looks like an opinion”, but actually wasn’t deliberately selected by the human who pasted it. I see a doc, dive in to try to understand, provide comments and suggestions, try and help sharpen the thought behind it – only to realize I’m just talking to Claude. I’m the first human to actually read this.
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