if you're bored, you're not paying attention
Artificial intelligence complicates things for writers.
It’s complicating everything for everyone these days, sure. We all have AI in our faces all day long, whether we want it or not (and mostly we don’t).
But for writers, the existence of chatbots that can generate text — let’s not call it “writing” exactly, but content — seems like an existential threat.… Story continues … “Writing with (and without) AI”
I’ve been blogging since 1999, when we still called these things “weblogs.”
For most of that time, this blog and my professional life overlapped a lot: They were both mostly about technology. They were both from the perspective of a journalist, first in the tech trades (InfoWorld, PC World), then consumer magazines (Mobile PC, WIRED), then the startup/VC blogosphere (VentureBeat).… Story continues … “I’m still blogging. Will you keep reading?”
One of today’s top recommended stories in my Medium feed is a piece intriguingly titled “How I Got My Attention Back.”
I clicked through, only to see that Medium estimated it as a 14-minute read. Fourteen minutes! You expect me to spend more than half a pomodoro of my precious attention on a wandering first-person narrative about your monthlong off-grid retreat?… Story continues … “How You Got My Attention”