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Clearly it's not going to threaten high end literary quality work like yours, but what about those that do the equivalent of piece work. Similar to what you described a while ago eg 500 words on new laundry powder, or an introductory piece to the new workplace culture strategy (shudder) ... so many of these things generated in corporate speak even now barely make it to literate, let alone readable. In fact I'm starting to wonder about some stuff that HR have been putting out lately......mmmm

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Well, that was as boring as bat shit. I guess the bodice rippers would fall for it.

I write articles for our website, and my latest got snaffled by one of the law bulletins. They "improved" it by adding some blurb thing at the top, "from the internet. I hope it's right". It must have been ChatGPT because it was just about all wrong. These fuckers are fucking lawyers, well, patent attorneys, but just didn't care. Luckily it was prepub so it could be fixed, but how much gets through with equally inattentive authors.

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Our overseas overlords had everyone do the usual.suite of online training. Stuff like information security, fraud, being nice to each other. Thing is it was barely intelligible. Brainstormed it with a couple of thinky types. We joked about how this is what robots would produce. The problem really was they'd just put the original training texts through something like Google translate. We probably received the 2nd iteration. By cripes we sent some feedback on that shit.

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Eirghhhh. AI is so samey, much like when you look for a topic on YouTube, one good video and 4000 cheap copies. You don't need AI , just 1000s of unimaginative proles from America's suburbs. AI is also horribly American, much like most of the contemporary internet, shoved through a northern Californian fudge tunnel , ignoring other cultures, and even other states of the USA. No wonder everyone is angry and confused.

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Good writing is an art form . I’ve seen some AI generated artwork too. It’s just not the same . Cool tech stuff but no soul. You’ll be fine. Unfortunately there are a lot that won’t be. I ain’t buying no crummy AI drivel

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Saw this coming quite a while back as I remember. This version of Chat is fairly easy to recognize . But the new version will be out soon and getting better and better . Then the next ....The hard truth is that AI is moving much to fast for anyone to keep up. Congress can’t. They don’t what Substack is or even what AI is. Biden is proposing something. That will be good for a laugh

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