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highplainsdem

(62,512 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 10:55 PM Mar 16

Mueller, She Wrote: Stop letting AI write your content.

Stop letting AI write your content.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-03-17T02:36:35.796Z



Loved the replies she got:

Especially AI developed by misogynistic incels who don’t consider women persons.

Nothing dumbs down a society quite like AI.

‪They are so lazy they don’t even think to proofread it. I am so tired of this.

I sell I/T. Been doing it for 15 years. AI is still in its beta stage. Every "news" agency that is letting AI represent them in print or online is a fucking idiot. Real news agencies check their sources 3 times, right?

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Mueller, She Wrote: Stop letting AI write your content. (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 16 OP
Garbage in. Garbage out. ... littlemissmartypants Mar 17 #1
Imagine lugging this in the large version over 500 miles full of paper... littlemissmartypants Mar 17 #2
I have seen some interesting uses of the current strains of AI, all require attentive oversight, no exception 0rganism Mar 17 #3
How do we know this is AI? Sympthsical Mar 17 #4

littlemissmartypants

(33,947 posts)
1. Garbage in. Garbage out. ...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 12:56 AM
Mar 17

Proofreading is a lost art. Human beings are getting lazier and lazier. Which makes us dumber and dumber.

I proofread a friend's novel. The manuscript filled a large sized American Tourister suitcase. It took me four months.

Today, people have neither the attention span nor the inclination.

The expanded influences on societal attitudes and the sustainable growth of a true civilized society are immeasurable. AI is not the answer.

0rganism

(25,665 posts)
3. I have seen some interesting uses of the current strains of AI, all require attentive oversight, no exception
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:21 AM
Mar 17

If you want to get good results, you personally need to be involved in review and editing of the output, whatever it may be. AI is still a tool even if its gatekeepers/proprietors already pretend it to be a djinn. You may need to redo a prompt for certain agents or reconfigure a base model to efficiently accomplish a particular task.

Fire-and-forget usage generates errors which are easily spotted by alert humans who, after all, are expected to consume the output in some form. AI should not be allowed to make a publishing decision on its own -- not yet, it's not ready for that yet.

Sympthsical

(11,012 posts)
4. How do we know this is AI?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:44 AM
Mar 17

I make all kinds of dumb little mistakes when I'm editing or rephrasing a sentence, and my mind blows right past it, because it thinks the problem is fixed.

It would be a little weird to use AI to write one basic English sentence. And Deadline, which has written many articles critical of the effects of AI on the industry, would be an interesting violator.

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