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Faizan Mehdi
How to Avoid a Neutral Tone in Your Writing
Writing tip: ChatGPT doesn’t have opinions. Boldly state yours, and defend it throughout your writing. "Generally." "Typically." "In some cases." AI-writing tools are intensely neutral. Almost to the point of seeming indecisive. There is a telltale lack of boldness in all AI writing. Even with the most opinionated prompts, AI writing is always giving itself a way out from what it is saying. AI doesn’t have polarizing opinions. AI writing is intensely neutral by design. The neutrality is not
Faizan Mehdi
· 1 min read
ChatGPT: The World's Most Prolific Biography Author
Recently, The New York Times covered the recent proliferation of AI-generated biographies. When a former editor of The New York Times passed away, his grieving family noticed that, in addition to a few lovely obituaries, there were half a dozen biographies cropping up on Amazon. How did someone write a whole book so quickly? Some were even published on the day he died. It turns out that this book is just one example of a new, ethically-murky subgenre of literature: AI-generated biographies tha
Faizan Mehdi
· 2 min read
How to Avoid AI Formulaic Writing Structures
Writing Tip: Conduct experiments with the way you structure your writing and language. It’s okay not to adhere to a perfectly structured framework. There’s no substitute for the richness of human language. When you’re in middle school English class and you first learn about writing, teachers encourage a formulaic writing structure. You might write a thesis statement, and then every subsequent paragraph maps back to that thesis statement, until the final concluding paragraph that wraps it all
Faizan Mehdi
· 2 min read
Why Humor in Your Writing Outshines AI
Writing Tip: ChatGPT doesn’t have a sense of humor. If you can inject your own sense of levity, weirdness, quirkiness, or humor into your writing, you’re doing something that AI can’t. What makes someone funny? Is it something that a Large Language Learning model can emulate? If an LLM could mimic the complex set of psychological, social, and biological factors that turn someone into the class clown, would it succeed in making you laugh? If you prompt ChatGPT to be funny, it might be able to
Faizan Mehdi
· 2 min read