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lately.</p><p id="58a5">Not only is it content that is unoriginal and undercuts the work of other hard-working writers, but the information can be wrong many times since the technology is still fairly new and isn’t 100% foolproof but also it literally says nothing special to the reader. It talks at you instead of to you.</p><p id="20d1">I ask many people now who submit purely technical and informational pieces to cite their sources. If they don’t, then I know that they’re using the aid of AI. Some people will just flat-out admit that. I know that Medium is going to start requiring that now but many of us just don’t feel comfortable publishing these stories.</p><p id="abdd">These people are taking too many shortcuts for me to feel comfortable even touching these stories. I’ll admit that I’ve let a few slip through over the months either by missing that it was AI or just being too worn down to care.</p><p id="369c">I’ve just been a lot more diligent about it lately. I’ve been denying these stories with an explanation. I’ve also been coming up with other ways to explain rewriting it in their own words without making the accusation outright.</p><p id="ec5d">If I wanted to read a bunch of dialogue generated by a computer, I’d play a video game. The editors on Medium, myself included, are tired of having to use AI detection software to try to weed out the human stories from the AI stories. I’m honestly getting fed up with having to reject so many stories. It use

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d to be a couple here and there.</p><p id="cb0c">I found myself rejecting a much larger number than I’m accustomed to today. I really don’t feel good telling people no so many times. It’s just gotten to the point that I don’t know what to say anymore. I started with the gentle approach but after seeing more and more coming in back to back to back, I started going with a very direct approach.</p><p id="10fb">It helped me maintain my sanity much better and instead of interacting with the computer-generated words, I was speaking to the person depending on them to create “content”.</p><p id="fabd">We, as the writers here on this platform, need to take our voices back from this wave of technologically based writing, refuse to read it when we even come across it and just write from the soul. Computers will never be able to replace our souls. We need to talk louder than these machines and regain our platform before it’s too late and you’ll have no other choice than to spend all night talking to a machine.</p><p id="b3d3">Worse yet, as a reader, you then won’t be able to avoid it anymore because the machines will just have taken over. Do you want to live in a world like that? I know I don’t. Okay, now that I’ve let this out. Tell me what you think about the AI wave and the advancement in this technology. Highlight anything I may have missed with this today. Let me know if you think that the machines will eventually make us their slaves or not.</p></article></body>

The Endless Conversations With Many Robots Today

I spent all night editing and publishing and I feel like I just finished a whole mindless and endless conversation with a robot

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Don’t you ever just stare at something and know that there is no way that it was written by a human being? Well, I had so many flashes of that last night. I decided against my better judgment to edit across all of the multiple publications I’m a part of now.

It just feels like with the amount of AI content that is popping up these days, I actually am having a conversation somewhere for real. It’s either that or I spent way too long staring at the screen and started imagining things.

Either way, I know that there’s a major problem. And it’s coming for all of the publications. AI content is going to continue pouring into Medium via various websites such as ChatGPT. Many publications, including many of the ones that I publish and edit for, have been cracking down on the content lately.

Not only is it content that is unoriginal and undercuts the work of other hard-working writers, but the information can be wrong many times since the technology is still fairly new and isn’t 100% foolproof but also it literally says nothing special to the reader. It talks at you instead of to you.

I ask many people now who submit purely technical and informational pieces to cite their sources. If they don’t, then I know that they’re using the aid of AI. Some people will just flat-out admit that. I know that Medium is going to start requiring that now but many of us just don’t feel comfortable publishing these stories.

These people are taking too many shortcuts for me to feel comfortable even touching these stories. I’ll admit that I’ve let a few slip through over the months either by missing that it was AI or just being too worn down to care.

I’ve just been a lot more diligent about it lately. I’ve been denying these stories with an explanation. I’ve also been coming up with other ways to explain rewriting it in their own words without making the accusation outright.

If I wanted to read a bunch of dialogue generated by a computer, I’d play a video game. The editors on Medium, myself included, are tired of having to use AI detection software to try to weed out the human stories from the AI stories. I’m honestly getting fed up with having to reject so many stories. It used to be a couple here and there.

I found myself rejecting a much larger number than I’m accustomed to today. I really don’t feel good telling people no so many times. It’s just gotten to the point that I don’t know what to say anymore. I started with the gentle approach but after seeing more and more coming in back to back to back, I started going with a very direct approach.

It helped me maintain my sanity much better and instead of interacting with the computer-generated words, I was speaking to the person depending on them to create “content”.

We, as the writers here on this platform, need to take our voices back from this wave of technologically based writing, refuse to read it when we even come across it and just write from the soul. Computers will never be able to replace our souls. We need to talk louder than these machines and regain our platform before it’s too late and you’ll have no other choice than to spend all night talking to a machine.

Worse yet, as a reader, you then won’t be able to avoid it anymore because the machines will just have taken over. Do you want to live in a world like that? I know I don’t. Okay, now that I’ve let this out. Tell me what you think about the AI wave and the advancement in this technology. Highlight anything I may have missed with this today. Let me know if you think that the machines will eventually make us their slaves or not.

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