There are some nuggets of goodness in this article that is far longer than it needs to be. The first is right near the beginning: "AI is not a tool. It's actually a medium." I like that recasting; AI can be used to create, express and distribute our ideas and thoughts even if we struggle with an inflexible and linear medium like language. But what does creating in AI look like? There are some good ideas: an emphasis on both speaking and listening, the idea of 'flaw-speak', which is the deliberate degrading of one's speech to avoid being perceived as AI, 'Algo-speak', "where the reader we were writing for stopped being a person and became a system," and almost exactly half way through, a list of things people "actually do" when using AI in writing (it's more than just cut and paste). The author warns at the beginning that the article is AI-assisted; I thought it would be really funny if, near the end, the author recanted, and said it was all human after all. Alas, that never happened.
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