HAVING AI WRITE FOR YOU (OR PLOT) FOR YOU IS A MUG’S GAME:  Technology is great until it isn’t.

AI can help with various things, including telling you where to find the information you need or helping you firm up a passage you’re having trouble visualizing. But it can never be the final product. By definition it is … not you?  My favorite moment recently was encountering a “I’ll never use AI to write disclaimer” on the front of a book that was written in near perfect Claude-Speak, completely unedited. Was it written with Claude? I don’t know. And I’m not engaging in the great 21st century witchhunt so I’m not telling you what the book is. But the juxtaposition of pious disavowal and the AI speak was hilarious. Maybe it was performance art?