Today, both Mailchimp and Hootsuite (very popular tools which I happen to use for @thunderbird newsletters and social media) invited me to use #AI to compose Facebook posts, tweets, and emails, respectively.
I won't be using AI tools for writing. But you should know that it's starting to get exponentially more difficult knowing if the content you're absorbing is from a human or from something like #ChatGPT.
@killyourfm@thunderbird it's even a bit irresponsible as the copyright status of AI output is unclear. What if months worth of your social media posts turn out to be plagiarism?
@ned I love certain AI-driven applications! Like Midjourney for example. I'm just saying that AI could never capture my unique writing "voice" and style.
@thunderbird Sure, but it can make something somewhat close to your style. It will output much more/faster than you can, but the quality will be quite different. I edit a lot more than I write, so LLMs are a great tool for me. They're kinda useless for pure writers.
@thunderbird if you're a fiction writer, instruction-following LLMs can help you prototype possible dialogs. This is what character.ai is about now.
Perhaps you can set up a character based on your writings? #ChatGPT is more like a postal office employee. Too formal for non-technical writing IMO.
@killyourfm it also really makes removes any value from newsletters and mailings they had - I'm not a big fan of either but that doesn't mean they have no merits...
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