Do What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.
Tag: AI
Artificial intelligence and the working writer: what AI genuinely helps with, where it fails, what stays yours, and how a professional uses it without surrendering the voice that makes a book worth reading.
AIWill My Ghostwriter Secretly Use AI on My Book?
You're paying professional rates. Is the work professional, or is it ChatGPT with a markup? How to find out, what to demand in the contract, and my own policy in plain terms.
AIAI Writes About Feelings. It Does Not Write With Them.
Ask for a moving passage and you get the vocabulary of moving passages. Everything is named and nothing is at risk.
AIAI Cannot Give You the One Thing Only You Have
Ask for an illustrative example and you get a plausible composite. Plausible composites are exactly what readers stop believing.
AIAI Does Not Know You, and That Is the Whole Problem
A model knows what people in your field generally say. That is the one thing your book must not be.
AIAI: The Death of Thinking | Richard Lowe on Optimal Conversations EP 55
Richard Lowe returns to Optimal Conversations with Mary Wong to unpack the Enemies of You series: why cheating with AI kills your ability to learn, how the augmented path turns AI into a digital assistant instead of a replacement brain,…
AEOWith SEO There Is Eventually a Big Bang. This Does Not Work That Way.
With SEO there is eventually a kind of big bang. A day arrives when Google decides to rank you. AEO does not work that way.
AIThe Other Path Does Not Announce Itself
An amplifier of thinking instead of a replacement for it. The difference is invisible from inside, which is why the wrong path is the easy one.
AIGeorge Trujillo on Values-Based Digital Leadership and Why Culture Comes First
Digital strategist George Trujillo on horizontal data flow, strategy drift, and why culture must change before technology.
AIJennifer Bonine on AI, Diversity, and Building a Company With a Conscience
AI CEO Jennifer Bonine on the business case for diversity, social responsibility, and keeping technology human.