3 Simple Ways to Ethically Use AI to Write Anything
This is pretty basic for those trained in understanding and detecting plagiarism. At least, at first...
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Dear
,One of the most controversial things that we've seen with the mainstreaming of AI in recent years has been its use in cheating on papers and homework. Here on Substack, we can see that, too: People use AI to write their posts or their Notes, and the readers often have no idea they're actually reading material a computer generated. Sometimes you can even spot whole essays that appear to be AI-written, sounding like the sort of answer you might get from ChatGPT.
One of the dead-giveaways that I’ve found is the repetition of the formulation “This isn’t this. It’s that. That’s not this. It’s that” where it goes back and forth suggesting that something isn’t something but it’s the other. So common.
There's something self-evidently wrong in doing this, but what's the word for it? How can we grapple with this? What is the ethical way to use AI in helping assist us to write?
I have an answer …
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