Writing is power

“Nice little personal essay you’ve got there, lady, but I know what you really are; time to get my knife out, time to start digging around under your skin until I find the wires.”

“What can the future look like for me?”

“What does this say about us, that we so passively acquiesce? Are we not the valiant knights, the truth-tellers, the beauty-makers, who journey to the dark side, slay the dragon, and bring back the dripping treasure? Are we not the guardians of the world’s soul?”

“I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey yo, for real,’ or drop a bunch of exclamation point”

“Machine-generated text reads as smooth and polished, but it loses the meanders, interruptions and leaps of logic that communicate emotion.”

“Corporate America is converging on a single voice. The brands that opt out will own the next decade.”

“The LLMs are pushing the essays away from anything that a human would have ever written”

“What does it mean that to publish a book with as little labor as possible is the system working at its efficient best?”

“It takes what you know instinctively about your own writing and makes it legible for a machine to use.”

“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”