Developing wit

Developing wit

As I’ve written, the advantage that human writers have over AI is wit. Ergo, if you want to continue to make a career of writing, you must develop your wit. Is that even possible? Yes. I’ll explain. What is wit? Wit is the ability, not just to inform, but to delight readers with your writing….

Note to Gannett: Crap writing is crap writing, whether an AI creates it or not

Note to Gannett: Crap writing is crap writing, whether an AI creates it or not

Gannett’s USA Today runs a product review site called Reviewed. It makes money when you click to buy things. And, at least according to the union talent that writes a lot of the reviews, it recently started filling up with some pretty crappy, possibly AI-generated reviews that they didn’t write. That’s the story from Washington…