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Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 01:10:03 JST Dwight Silverman

Missing the point of what writing is. Funny and brilliant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/
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1. All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing - report summaries, data surveys, children's letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately - are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is? It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people. It is a method for taking thoughts and images and stories out of your brain and putting them into someone else's brain. E.M. Forster quotes a woman saying, "How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?" To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself.
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