Be Gracious to Human Prose
I think we all need to give everyone a little grace when it comes to communication. People are so easily offended, in writing, in social media posts, at work, that they rely on AI to smooth things over. We are so insecure in our ability to communicate we ask the robots to do it for us. But like Ariel the Mermaid, should I really be selling my voice to grow some e-commerce legs?
I have decided to be authentic rather than perfect, and I will avoid AI text descriptions going forward. And to avoid AI in my 3d modeling of course (save us all when jewelry is designed by prompt). If were to use AI to make jewelry and write AI text descriptions to be read and summarized by AI search engines, where is the human in the chain? I want no part of it.
I am a good writer, not perfect, and my tone is a little off, but my words are mine.
I experimented with using AI to polish my language on product descriptions, but you know what, I think it is better for me to use my unrefined, terse, tone-deaf prose, and avoid AI slop. And if my tone rubs the wrong way, just fire up a LLM of choice and it will calculate a response that will make you feel like you are special and loved and the most important person in the world. The robots make great salesmen, better than me, but let the cobbler stick to his last, going forward I will embrace my writing and eschew AI-generated text.
Written by Steve Scott
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