writing 5
- Writing voice is what remains once a writer stops editing themselves out, not something added on top.
- Original human-written text that has not been touched by AI is becoming increasingly valuable.
Ann Handley
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AI writing 4
- Original human-written text that has not been touched by AI is becoming increasingly valuable.
- Training AI language models increasingly on AI-generated text causes their output to degrade and become repetitive over time.
LLMs 4
- Training AI language models increasingly on AI-generated text causes their output to degrade and become repetitive over time.
- Pattern recognition and replication is fundamentally what machine-learning systems do best.
taste 3
- In an age of abundant information, a person's judgment, taste and perspective are their primary value as a writer.
- AI has no genuine discernment; it absorbs and reproduces without judgment.
ambition 2
- Doing free work early on builds the reputation that eventually leads to being paid.
- Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.
management 2
- How people handle small things reflects and shapes how they handle bigger things.
- As speed becomes cheap, good judgment becomes more valuable.