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Henry Oliver's avatar

“writing to me isn’t separable from thinking, and in fact seems to be a very particular form of thinking which is different to all others.”

This is why I think AI taking over writing is overstated. It is the forms of writing that *dont* constitute thinking that are most under threat

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JPodmore's avatar

The bit of the Hoel post I could see annoyed me because 1. he was reading way too much into it and 2. he misinterpreted some of it anyway. Actually not everything the guardian publishes is original journalism - like most papers, they pay for wire copy from services like Reuters, the Press Association etc. I think the point of the bit he highlights is to say they won't use AI to mass-generate filler.

It just seemed like someone who was pro-Butlerian jihad was interpreting a fairly anodyne statement in the most negative possible light.

Disclosure: I work there (not in journalism, or in the working group mentioned in the statement)

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