I missed this installment of your work, and that you Jayshree for providing a set of tools. I’ll be honest, I’m unfamiliar with many. I use Pages and Grammarly for my writing. I have Chat GPT for helping me summarize my essays into 500 words for my radio show. I’m afraid to use it to write my essays because I don’t want to become dependent on it. I plan on using much of my own work to write my biography. My understanding is AI assistant writing isn’t allowed to sell on Amazon exceptions being ChatGPT, so I’m reluctant to heavily use it.
I’m going to explore your other suggested tools, which most I haven’t heard of until reading your essay. Thank you!
You are welcome, Charlotte! Pages and Grammarly (uses AI) work well. For some publishing works, you may be required to declare use of AI based on the publisher. I agree - writing outside of AI is best as it helps you stay creative and original. May help to instruct gpt to only use your writing voice/text for the 500 word summaries - or create a personal style guide project.
The biggest danger of relying on AI as you pointed out is that we become dependent on it, and lose our creative edge and storytelling skill.
This is such a wonderful and helpful post Jayshree. I was glad to see you included the AP Style Guide along with the Chicago Style Manual. I would add in the APA and the MLA primarily because no one teaches the CSM and it is far more cumbersome for blog writing. CSM is great for book writers who may not want to engage a professional proofreaders or copy-editor.
Thanks Pamela and for the new guide reference - I will add the APA/MLA note if I can find some digital sources for them. I agree, CSM is a great reference guide.
Thank you, Jayshree, for mentioning my "selfish writer" Note 😊. My toolbox is even simpler than your minimum recommendation: Word for Mac, a folder for my drafts, and Substack. But it occurs to me that some type of program for better organizing and saving might be nice. I'll look into this thing called "Notion." 🙏💚
lol. I enjoyed your note and many of us feel the same way! Word for Mac with local folders works too, but requires you to be super diligent about organization. Access is another issue - if you want to work in portable mode, you have to sync between computers (desktop/laptop) etc. As you grow content base, you will need a content management system to also plan future topics. Notion also works to collate your research online. Check out my post / videos on it!
I appreciate your view, and it is entirely optional right now. It is a tough transition as everyone navigates this tech and chooses whether to adopt it and what guardrails to use.
The bit that we all have to content with - very soon, it will be difficult to get editing software without AI built-in. We will also gain AI use detectors and Digital Rights Management!
In the fall, Apple Macs will have Apple AI - which means Pages also will have AI support.
Soon, companies will stop announcing which features are AI driven and which are not.
Publications and newspaper editors are most likely going to adopt generative AI for efficiencies (proofreading, editorial assists, digital title generation for SEO) etc.
Even Substack uses AI on the platform for support, and its algorithm is predictive AI in evaluating recommendations, articles, likes, Notes, to then decide what to show in your feed, and what writers you should follow. It won't be long before they offer AI assist in their features.
Will we be able to turn off the AI or will we have to figure out another way to get around it? I really hate when programmers think that they know what I want or need and change stuff that’s not broken.
I missed this installment of your work, and that you Jayshree for providing a set of tools. I’ll be honest, I’m unfamiliar with many. I use Pages and Grammarly for my writing. I have Chat GPT for helping me summarize my essays into 500 words for my radio show. I’m afraid to use it to write my essays because I don’t want to become dependent on it. I plan on using much of my own work to write my biography. My understanding is AI assistant writing isn’t allowed to sell on Amazon exceptions being ChatGPT, so I’m reluctant to heavily use it.
I’m going to explore your other suggested tools, which most I haven’t heard of until reading your essay. Thank you!
You are welcome, Charlotte! Pages and Grammarly (uses AI) work well. For some publishing works, you may be required to declare use of AI based on the publisher. I agree - writing outside of AI is best as it helps you stay creative and original. May help to instruct gpt to only use your writing voice/text for the 500 word summaries - or create a personal style guide project.
The biggest danger of relying on AI as you pointed out is that we become dependent on it, and lose our creative edge and storytelling skill.
Thank you for sharing this concise summary of useful tools and how to use them.
You are welcome. Thanks for sharing your feedback.
This is such a wonderful and helpful post Jayshree. I was glad to see you included the AP Style Guide along with the Chicago Style Manual. I would add in the APA and the MLA primarily because no one teaches the CSM and it is far more cumbersome for blog writing. CSM is great for book writers who may not want to engage a professional proofreaders or copy-editor.
Thanks Pamela and for the new guide reference - I will add the APA/MLA note if I can find some digital sources for them. I agree, CSM is a great reference guide.
Thank you, Jayshree, for mentioning my "selfish writer" Note 😊. My toolbox is even simpler than your minimum recommendation: Word for Mac, a folder for my drafts, and Substack. But it occurs to me that some type of program for better organizing and saving might be nice. I'll look into this thing called "Notion." 🙏💚
lol. I enjoyed your note and many of us feel the same way! Word for Mac with local folders works too, but requires you to be super diligent about organization. Access is another issue - if you want to work in portable mode, you have to sync between computers (desktop/laptop) etc. As you grow content base, you will need a content management system to also plan future topics. Notion also works to collate your research online. Check out my post / videos on it!
Thank you, Jayshree! 🙏
Using AI to create or edit content is cheating, NOT writing. I have never used it and never will. And yes, before retiring, I got paid to write.
I appreciate your view, and it is entirely optional right now. It is a tough transition as everyone navigates this tech and chooses whether to adopt it and what guardrails to use.
The bit that we all have to content with - very soon, it will be difficult to get editing software without AI built-in. We will also gain AI use detectors and Digital Rights Management!
In the fall, Apple Macs will have Apple AI - which means Pages also will have AI support.
Soon, companies will stop announcing which features are AI driven and which are not.
Publications and newspaper editors are most likely going to adopt generative AI for efficiencies (proofreading, editorial assists, digital title generation for SEO) etc.
Even Substack uses AI on the platform for support, and its algorithm is predictive AI in evaluating recommendations, articles, likes, Notes, to then decide what to show in your feed, and what writers you should follow. It won't be long before they offer AI assist in their features.
Will we be able to turn off the AI or will we have to figure out another way to get around it? I really hate when programmers think that they know what I want or need and change stuff that’s not broken.