From Rick Lewis on the gradual monoculture effects on human thought of using a ‘little bit of help’ from AI:
“Every time any author gives up a corner of their authentic voice to the help of AI, it’s like losing another species of insect or amphibian in the rainforest. A tragedy no one is tracking or shrugs away as just part of life in the modern world…
“Organic human thought and expression is the equivalent to me of how tropical rain forests are called the lungs of the world. Bulldoze the rain forests and a few decades later we’re like, oh wait, those were really really important.”
My wife is a professional book editor and is looking sadder every day, because a mounting percentage of the jobs being submitted to her say this, “My book is my voice, I just ran it through AI for grammar.”
“What they don’t know,” she tells me privately “is that every one of these books sound exactly the same, even across varying subject…
May 10
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