The Fine Line: Enhancing Creative Writing Without Replacing It with AI

Reading Time: 7 minutesA Misstep in AI: The Backlash Against Google’s Gemini Ad In response to the rapid emergence and widespread availability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing tools, people are questioning whether using AI in place of creative personal human writing is appropriate. During the Olympics, Google sponsored an ad about a young lady inspired by a female …

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Don’t Let AI Silence Your Unique Human Voice: How to Use AI as a Writing Ally, Not a Replacement

Reading Time: 5 minutesDon’t Let AI Replace Your Human Voice. AI is a fantastic tool, but there’s a real danger of becoming so enamored of its capabilities that we let AI replace our creative writing, our human voice, and our thoughts. Use it to enhance your creative writing and human expression, but not replace it. Recently, I saw …

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Apps for Dictation — Comparing Whisper Memos with Cleft Notes

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m Using Whisper Memos in my Workflows I’ve been using the dictation-transcription app Whisper Memos for several months. In the past, I didn’t use dictation very often. But I’ve been using dictation in my workflow more and more in the past year. Now, I use dictation every day. It’s a quick and frictionless way to …

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From Copycats to Creativity and Authenticity: Why AI Isn’t the Future of Writing

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently, I’ve noticed that more blog writers are using AI to write their posts. It’s faster and easier to use AI than writing your own material. But there are also some significant downsides to using AI to do your writing. I Want to Read Creative People, Not Machine-Generated Predictive Text My biggest problem with AI-generated …

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Writer Anne Janzer Warns Against the Misuse of AI by Writers — Just Because AI Can Do Your Writing for You Doesn’t Mean You Should Let It

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn her blog, well-known writer and writing instructor Anne Janzer (author of The Writer’s Process: Getting Your Brain in Gear) warns, “If…you let AI actually write in your place, what it creates will probably sound like the amalgam of what other people write like.” AI and Writing: Should you prioritize speed? She suggests that while …

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Using Artificial Intelligence — It’s A Question of Ethics As Well as Utility

Reading Time: 4 minutesArtificial Intelligence has taken the tech world by storm. Almost daily, more and more developers announce the implementation of AI as a part of their apps. The sudden availability and popularity of AI have raised important questions for writers. Am I free to use AI in any way I can, or are there ethical limits …

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