What Maggie Appleton thinks about writing

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Designer, anthropologist and illustrator who writes about the web, tools for thought and generative AI on her digital garden at maggieappleton.com. Her 2022 essay "The Dark Forest and Generative AI" put the reverse Turing test -- proving you are not a language model -- into the vocabulary of the independent web.

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31 Dec 2022

Our readingWriting that is specific, local and grounded in a real life is the cheapest available proof that a person wrote it, because models default to generics.

Their wordsReferencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.

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