This blog post about AI trying to “polish” Jenny Lawson’s email is so great. Just a snippet:

Y’all, if you get an email from me it will be signed with HUGS, LOVE, FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY, DOWN WITH POWDERED GRAVY or SORRY I SUCK SO MUCH. It will be filled with typos and rambling parentheticals and apologies for answering several months too late. This is how you know it’s me and not a robot.

I use AI a lot but I don’t want it rewriting my stuff. What works better for me is just asking AI if a particular phrase makes sense. I’ll do my own edits.

Simone

classic Jenny Lawson! I love how she’s not changed much over the years — a good thing in my book.

Manton Reece

@sim0ne Cool. I’ve actually never read her books but really glad I found her blog. She also has a great bookstore in San Antonio that we visited recently! I was super impressed with it.

Alexander Kucera

I tend to use AI for two things when writing.

  1. Give me a rough structure when I have no idea what to write
  2. Ask it to check for spelling, grammar and readability suggestions

I‘d never just use an AI generated text verbatim.

Manton Reece @manton
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