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Writing Tips
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
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
The queen is dead
AI: ‘It is with the deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of Her Majesty, the Queen.’ AI Prompted to Sound Like Shakespeare: In profoundest grief, we doth herald the demise of Her Majesty, the Queen. Shakespeare: The Queen, my lord, is dead. Literary scholars have pointed out that for the famous line in Macbeth Act 5, Scene 4, Shakespeare had at least two if not three other options for announcing the Queen’s death. * The Queen is dead, my lord. * My lord, the Queen is dead. * An
