This is a variation on something I’ve mentioned in passing before. I like running draft blog posts through AI. Even for very short posts, sometimes I’ll paste the text into ChatGPT and ask it to tell me what the post means. If AI can “understand” it, humans probably can too.
For longer blog posts, AI seems to mirror what most people would think. After all, AI is essentially a distillation of all opinions on the web. If there is anything dumb or divisive in a post, AI will probably call it out. This could soften the edges of a post, potentially watering down its impact, but sometimes that’s exactly what you want.
This strength of shaping a post so that it’s approachable to everyone else might be a weakness for creating original content. I’m still avoiding AI agents because that approach veers AI into a place where humans are no longer writing the first draft. That spark of creativity, coming up with the framing for something new. That’s not something I want to give up.
