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I am a massive fan of ChatGPT and AI generally. I use it for text and graphics, my startup is looking at how to utilise it to solve a massive problem here in Croatia. But there are limits. So the following might in fact be a shock to you.

You see, when I use ChatGPT, I don’t then copy paste it somewhere. I use it to inspire when my fingers are achy and my brain is foggy. It can give me a prompt sometimes, especially for some repetitive jobs.

I even use to for mundane suggestions I used to use Google for, like recipes or things to do or health things. Like Google, I don’t take it as gospel, I use my brain and interpret what it’s telling me. I probe more and get a real answer and sometimes I even argue with it.

However it seems many aren’t doing this.

Medium

Let’s start with the big M, since we’re here.

I was full of glee when I got that email through (you got it too right?). Medium are cracking down on AI written content, and too right!

I was browsing through some profiles the other day, and thought “Wow” this writer is prolific, she writes 4 articles a day. Then I clicked to another profile. This guy was churning out about 20 stories a day, on different subjects.

It looked AI-y, the titles, the content. When you use it, you can spot it.

Then I was pissed. He had published 20 stories about travel.

Perhaps I am jumping to conclusions. Perhaps he had handwritten them over a few years, finally got round to type them up, and decided for some reason to post them all at once, in one day, that seemed to just have travel as a theme.

My issue is that travel is wonderful, and full of wonder. It’s also personal and special.

Perhaps ChatGPT can capture some of that, but one of the reasons I read stories here is for that human touch, and AI doesn’t have that (unless you’ve trained it well).

So well done Medium.

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