I feel called to speak on a current phenomenon: the assumption that everything is AI.
I provide videos to mirror all my writing, and if there’s any virtue in the mediocre lighting for the one that mirrors this article, I hope it’s that it convinces you I’m a real person.
I write in many ways, in part so I can share the lessons with you: with AI, by hand, with AI and edited by hand, by hand edited with AI. Right now, it honestly feels like people are more likely to accuse real human writing of being AI than they are to accurately identify AI-generated content.
And certainly… everyone is really paranoid. I'm tempted to dig up the term apophenia. It describes a kind of paranoia where someone becomes convinced of a theory and interprets everything around them as evidence for it. It’s very common with conspiracy theories, and I think we’re seeing a similar pattern with AI.
If you write and there’s a typo, people might call it AI. No typos? AI. Friendly tone? AI. A slightly off tone? AI. If we notice anything about something, it is the tell of lurking AI.
Maybe it’s worth remembering that every once in a while, you are talking to a real person. And maybe that matters... that not everyone on your network is a robot you can treat however you want.