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The key take away is AI cannot replicate personal, unique experiences. As writers, we must be sure to pepper our posts with personalized stories. I can tell when something was written using AI. It just doesn't move me is how I will put it. Thanks for your post. Very informative!

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My experience was similar with ChatGPT and I had the same thought that the how-to writer is now extinct. My concern with it is more around the safety of it, particularly as it is launched to the public before its safety is fully tested. I have a friend who is spending an hour a day in conversation “as a friend” with it, which seems to be the goal (intimacy) of the tech companies. Language is the heartbeat of humanity. A survey of the people who are developing AI large language models say there is a 10% chance that the technology will destroy us. That’s a pretty big chance of extreme failure. If it was just the death of the how to article and recipes I wouldn’t care, but the potential for this to epically go wrong concerns me. And I hope I am epically wrong to be concerned! Thank you for sharing your trial of it!

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You are so witty! I loved this one, and wholeheartedly agree that there's far too much heart and real-world experience in a human's voice that (I hope) no machine can ever replicate.

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